Towed Magnetic Anomaly Detection (MAD) Aerodynamic Modeling and Simulation for Rotary Wing Platforms Navy STTR FY2015.A Sol No.: Navy STTR FY2015.A Topic No.: N15A-T009 Topic Title: Towed Magnetic Anomaly Detection (MAD) Aerodynamic Modeling and Simulation for Rotary Wing Platforms Proposal No.: N15A-009-0117 Firm: Area I, Inc 1590 N Roberts Rd Suite 102 Kennesaw, Georgia 30144 Contact: Daniel Kuehme Phone: (678) 584-5227 Web Site: www.areai.aero Abstract: The Area-I team proposes to leverage its expertise and extensive design, analysis, and simulation tools to evaluate the design space of towed magnetic anomaly detection (MAD) systems with the goal of understanding the design trends and requirements in developing a new, lightweight rotorcraft-towed anti-submarine warfare (ASW) system that is optimized to take advantage of smaller state-of-the-art MAD sensors. Benefits: The evaluation of a large portion of the tow system design space will highlight the key design trends and parameters that will feed into potential future tow system designs. The simulation evaluation will further identify the wind tunnel experiments that need to be performed in future work phases to validate and calibrate the evaluation environment developed herein. Furthermore, as future tow system design candidates for the Navy arise, Area-I will be able to rapidly evaluate these candidate systems for performance in MAD mission scenarios to simplify the development cycle of these systems and reduce program cost. Return