Integrated Underwater Sensing System for Platform Safety & Threat Alertment

Increased operations by U.S. Navy ships in the near shore and inport environments have increased desire for improved navigational safety and improved self protection from underwater threats. Commercial technologies exist or are under development whichcould form the basis for shipboard sensors to detect, provide alertment, and, in some cases, indentify underwater natural, manmade, or human threats to ships. Phase I of this project will prove this concept by developing an innovative engineering designfor a prototype underwater sensing system that provides hazard and security alertment for U. S. Navy ships. In Phase II the prototype will be built, tested, and readied for fleet introduction. This project streamlines and compresses exploratory, advanced,and engineering developments by leaveraging COTS technologies and commercial processes to provide a system to address needs identified in today's news headlines. This system will have wide applicability across many ship types for improved navigationalsafety and improved self protection from underwater threats. The system will have similar applicability to allied naval craft and high value commercial vessels.