Radar Signature Tools for Small Boats in Dynamic Sea Environments

Maritime surveillance of small boats is a key component to protecting U.S Navy fleet assets in both littoral and deep water environments. Detection and identification is complex due to the size and mobility of the threat in addition to highly variable environmental factors including sea state and boat wake. Standard radar cross section (RCS) tools do not properly account for the materials typically found in small boats nor do they account for the environmental interactions. Strategic Technology Solutions, LLC proposes to incorporate the environmental interactions to allow the PGRC RCS analysis tool to model and predict radar signatures of small boats in dynamic sea states. PGRC will be modified to incorporate new features that allow for efficient signature predictions of hydrodynamic phenomena. The customer will have options of performing various complexities of analysis depending on the signature resolution desired. The PGRC Signature Management Tool (SMT) will be upgraded to provide quick turnaround modeling and data analysis to allow the tools to be used effectively in an iterative design or analysis process, thus saving many man-years of effort over the course of a development or analysis program.