Acoustic Surveillance Multi-Array Search Aid

This proposal recognizes the intricacies of maintaining an accurate, complete, and consistent Common Tactical Picture (CTP) across a strike group at the multiple layers of the ASW command structure. As the Navy moves towards more capable sensor systems and netted sensors on conventional and unmanned platforms, the amount of information shared cross-platform will continue to increase dramatically. To enable a CTP to manage and use this data, a new cross-platform correlation capability and effective user interface is required. This new cross-platform correlation capability must provide track fusion with a de-cluttered display and operator decision aids in order to not increase workload. With an initial multi-array fusion and correlation capability defined in Phase I, the emphasis of the Phase II work is to implement, integrate, and demonstrate this new cross-platform correlation capability and its ability to enable CTP formulation using multi-platform information sources from the tactical and operational domains.