Collaborative Airborne ASW Mission Evaluation and Optimization (CAMEO) Navy SBIR FY2016.1 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2016.1 Topic No.: N161-015 Topic Title: Collaborative Airborne ASW Mission Evaluation and Optimization (CAMEO) Proposal No.: N161-015-0247 Firm: Daniel H. Wagner, Associates, Incorporated 559 West Uwchlan Avenue Suite 140 Exton, Pennsylvania 19341 Contact: W. Monach Phone: (757) 727-7700 Web Site: http://www.wagner.com Abstract: In this SBIR project Daniel H. Wagner Associates (DHWA), with DDL OMNI as a subcontractor, will develop a Collaborative Airborne ASW Mission Evaluation and Optimization (CAMEO) system that will automatically: (1) Accurately estimate the current and future 3-dimensional (3-D) location of a threat submarine Target of Interest (TOI) taking into account all available information, e.g.: positive (sensor or intelligence reports), negative (effective searches not detecting the TOI) and target motion (including depth changes and periscope/mast exposures). (2) Recommend militarily effective, executable, jointly optimized, and integrated airborne ASW plans utilizing all available and relevant assets and their synergistic acoustic and non-acoustic, passive and active sensors, against one or more threat targets of interest (weighted for importance), that account for all relevant factors. (3) Quantitatively determine mission effectiveness of plan using operationally relevant metrics. (4) Monitor the tactical situation and environmental conditions in real-time, and alert the operator and automatically recommend a new jointly optimized and integrated airborne ASW plan if either the tactical situation or environmental conditions change significantly. Benefits: (1) Significantly improved airborne ASW search and surveillance effectiveness (i.e., reduced time to detect and classify a submarine target).  Better and more accurate decisions  Better exploitation of search system synergies (2) Significantly reduced risk to friendly platforms being protected by airborne ASW assets. (3) Significantly improved operator Situational Awareness (SA) and threat assessment. (4) Reduced airborne ASW planner/operator time-on-task. Return