Deep Water Inflatable and Deployable Structures

The US Navy requires on-demand acoustic sensing throughout the world’s oceans to identify, localize, and track adversary submarines. An improved hydrophone array within specified form factors would be of high value to the Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) community. Boston Engineering Corporation has developed the Hydraulically Extended Longeron Isogrid matriX (HELIX) program to model, simulate, build, and test a novel array system that provides a significant expansion ratio, high reliability deployment, and robustly stiff structure. Boston Engineering proposes a deployable structure that is highly stable, resists bending, and is inherently torsion resistant for structural evaluation, acoustic analysis, and scaled testing. Boston Engineering and our team (Moonprint Solutions, and Raytheon) apply our collective understanding of maritime hydraulic inflation, acoustics simulation, softgoods, and fabrication expertise to streamline efforts, decrease overall technical risk, and maximize the potential for transition.