Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Aircraft (MPRA) Anti-submarine Warfare (ASW) Tactics Trainer (MATT)

In this Phase I SBIR project for NAVAIR, Daniel H. Wagner Associates, Inc. (DHWA) will provide the Naval Air Warfare Center Training System Division (NAWCTSD) with a training tool that supports the Fleet Naval Flight Officers’ (NFOs) need for supplemental exploration of anti-submarine warfare (ASW) tactics with Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Aircraft (MPRA), such as P-3s and P-8s, filling the gap between classroom instruction and expensive trainers or high-profile, time-critical training exercises.  The MPRA ASW Tactics Trainer (MATT) will be a lightweight application allowing NFOs to create, execute, and interact with MPRA scenarios to assess the effectiveness of particular ASW tactics against threat submarines using automated measures of effectiveness (MOEs), such as cumulative detection probability (CDP), tracking hold time, etc.  NFOs will be able to input blue force details (e.g., MPRA flight plans, passive sonobuoy and multi-static active coherent (MAC) fields, surface and subsurface tracks), choose red force submarine behaviors (e.g. rule-based, random, or scripted), run the scenario at any speed, pause the scenario and restart (e.g., to see where the red force submarine actually was during that part of the scenario), and evaluate the effectiveness of their chosen tactics.