Efficient Autonomous Sensor Performance Prediction (EASPP) System

In this SBIR project Wagner Associates, with Marine Information Resource Corporation (MIRC) as a subcontractor, will develop an Efficient Autonomous Sensor Performance Prediction (EASPP) system that will automatically and autonomously: (1) Generate the minimal number of required Transmission Loss (TL) and pseudo-TL (TL including reverberation) curves (referred to from here on as"TLs") necessary to accurately characterize the acoustic environment and to support the generation of an optimized Multistatic Active Coherent (MAC) or passive sonobuoy tactical plan, (2) Produce an optimized MAC or passive sonobuoy tactical plan, and (3) Monitor the tactical situation in real-time, alert the operator, and automatically generate a new optimized MAC or passive sonobuoy plan if environmental conditions change. In this project we will leverage our extensive prior work developing many of the U.S. Navy"s systems that have or are being used operationally for optimally allocating ASW search resources, and in particular our previous development of the Operational Route Planner (ORP) and the MH-60R Acoustic Mission Planner (AMP).