Collaborative Undersea Warfare Mission Planning for Manned and Unmanned Vehicles Navy SBIR FY2016.1 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2016.1 Topic No.: N161-015 Topic Title: Collaborative Undersea Warfare Mission Planning for Manned and Unmanned Vehicles Proposal No.: N161-015-0159 Firm: Adaptive Methods, Inc 5860 Trinity Parkway Suite 200 Centreville, Virginia 20120 Contact: Rob Blanchard Phone: (703) 968-6127 Web Site: http://www.adaptivemethods.com Abstract: Individual undersea warfare (USW) assets have a wide variety of sensors at their disposal (passive acoustic, active acoustic monostatic, active acoustic bi-static, electronic support measures, electro-optical/infrared, etc.). Many of these assets and sensors tend to have separate standalone mission planning systems or applications that include differing displays of capability and/or estimated performance, and may be subject to environments that are variable both in space and in time. This ultimately increases the physical and cognitive burden on operators to consolidate and interpret multiple mission planning displays and information to understand the tactical situation. Sensor performance predictions need to be updated routinely due to dynamic oceanographic and atmospheric changes, which also increases operator workload with multiple systems requiring the same information. Adaptive Methods proposes the Collaborative Optimization/Mission Planning/Assessment of Sensors Software (COMPASS) that can address these issues by providing a visualization framework to: integrate mission planning tools and tactical decision aids; aggregate data from multiple sources; and allow sensor performance predictions to be composited and easily manipulated using 3D rendering and touch-enabled interfaces. Existing mission planning capability will be incorporated along with multi-objective optimization functions to aid in indicating the performance of individual and groups of manned and unmanned assets and sensors. Benefits: COMPASS and its underlying technologies will enable greater operator efficiency from a 3D-based display that provides enhanced visualization and manipulation. Situational awareness will be improved through the aggregation of data from multiple sources. Accuracy in sensor performance predictions and deployment efficacy will be increased through the use of optimization algorithms. The solution will demonstrate easy integration of existing mission planning components, use of open source code where possible, and high extensibility of the design. The U.S. Navy will have a collaborative undersea warfare tool that can be utilized across multiple sensors and assets. Other government and commercial agencies that utilize surveillance systems or acoustic/non-acoustic perimeter security systems can benefit from this technology. The medical standalone software market may also realize benefits from the use of this software providing composite looks of medical sensor and imagery information from multiple sources. Return