Future sonar - CDE themed competition launch

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CDE themed competition
Future sonar

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Centre for Defence Enterprise
Future Sonar
Harnessing discovery and invention for future sonar
advantage
© Crown copyright 2014 Dstl
26 March 2014 UNCLASSIFIED /
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1. Overview
– Maritime Freedom of Manoeuvre Programme
– Future sonar CDE competition
2. What would a sonar advantage look like?
3. What could future sonar be?
4. How can technological discoveries and breakthroughs offer an
advantage?
5. Invitation for proposals
For PUBLIC RELEASE
Agenda
Interface meetings and networking
Presentations:
Q&A

Maritime Freedom of Manoeuvre
Maintain Freedom of Manoeuvre within the maritime environment in the face
of changing threats, environment and technology
26 March 2014
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Themes
Freedom of Manoeuvre
Submarine capability
Remote Mine Countermeasures
Anti Submarine Warfare
Geospatial intelligence gathering
Project structure
Sonarand
acoustics
Non-acoustic
sensing
Systems
analysis
Remote
systems
UWweapons
Signaturesand
Survivability
UWComms&
Networks
UWDAS
UWplatform
systems
Sonarand
acoustics

Challenge 1
1. Harnessing discovery and invention for future sonar advantage
Develop game-changing sonar technology to
• reduce cost and integration constraints
• be capable in all environments
• improve performance
• improve useability
Develop and maintain UK capability in underwater acoustic sensing
Desired outcomes
• provide the Royal Navy (RN) with a step change in capability
• ensure the UK maintains freedom of action
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Challenges 2 and 3
2. Measuring decision effectiveness
How effective is the application of new technology (sonar / processing /
automated displays) in improving decision effectiveness?
3. Non-destructive evaluation of sonar technology
How can modern techniques be used to provide an improved assessment of
the integrity of in-service (and future) sonar?
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Funding opportunity
• Up to 9 months funding from CDE themed competition
• Total budget up to £850k (£600k reserved for challenge 1)
• Fixed completion date for all contracts awarded
• Up to 3 years additional funding available as part of a follow-on programme
• Competition for challenge 1
• This is the only planned opportunity for funding related to challenge 1 – this
competition is the single entry point into this technology area
• Total budget for follow-on programme is over £600k p.a.
• Everyone who responds to this competition will be invited to join the Maritime
Collaborative Enterprise (MarCE) community
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Factors affecting assessment of all
challenges
Phase 1 (CDE themed competition)
High quality proposals are likely to show how:
• the solution can deliver game changing capability
• the exploitation readiness of the technology under investigation would be advanced
• the work would build and maintain UK capability
Phase 2 (follow-on programme)
Success achieved under CDE funding
Quality of bids for follow-on funding
• transformative effect of development
• evidence of UK capability being built or maintained
• clear route for delivery and development and advanced exploitation readiness
Results of “interview” at Dstl
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What would a sonar advantage look
like?
Future active sensing
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Current approach
Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) and Mine Counter Measures (MCM) largely
undertaken by ship-borne and aircraft-deployed systems
• large and expensive platforms
• effective when deployed
• reliant on a trained man-in-the loop
• focussed on acoustic sensing
Issues
• reducing cost while maintaining capability ie more efficient
• reducing manning and training requirements
• making easier or quicker to deploy
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Current ship-borne ASW
Image courtesy of Thales UK

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Proud Manta experiment

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Current MCM sensing
Image courtesy of Thales UK

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Future MCM sensing

The future
What do the challenges for active sonar look like?
• smaller, lighter, more numerous, low powered, unmanned, networked,
intelligent, remote, multi-influence, environmentally friendly…
What are the future threats?
• traditional threats plus… smaller, manned/unmanned, more numerous…
More likely to be a combined and distributed sensing field with:
• improved performance in all environments
• reduced cost and greater reliability
• assurance of what works and where it works
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like?
Future passive sensing
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Current platforms
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Future platforms
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Submarine sonar
Larger arrays
How do we get there

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Submarine sonar
Larger arrays
Thinner, lighter, less compressible, lower cost, sonar
arrays and associated systems
How do we get there

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Submarine sonar
Larger arrays
Thinner, lighter, less compressible, lower cost, sonar
arrays and associated systems
Unmanned systems
Capable ASW sensors
How do we get there

The future
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What do the challenges for active sonar look
like?
• thinner, lighter, less compressible, lower
powered…
We are looking for new passive sonar
technologies and materials for manned
platforms and unmanned vehicles
• must provide step change in performance
• must be more effective without increasing
size or cost
• must maintain ability to suppress self-
noise

Non-destructive evaluation of sonar technology
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Traditional non-destructive evaluation (NDE) techniques have some
limitations, for example in detecting deep defects, which make it difficult to
fully assess current sonar arrays
We are looking for new techniques to overcome these limitations
Expect techniques to:
• offer improved resolution of the information on the material /
mechanical properties of the sonar
• be safe to use, reliable, and cost effective
• help to reduce the repair time and the impact
of having to make repairs

like?
Measuring sonar improvements
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Dependencies
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Mission Effectiveness
Decision Effectiveness
Situational Awareness
Tactical Picture Quality

Decision-effectiveness framework
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Mission
Effectiveness
(ME)
Decision Effectiveness
(DE)
Situational Awareness
(SA)
Tactical Picture Quality
(TPQ)
Improved
capability
Measure

Measuring decision effectiveness
Aims
For PUBLIC RELEASE
• Identify new measures of decision effectiveness (DE)
• Identify tools and techniques to measure DE
• Use tools and techniques - to understand which aspects of the tactical
picture have the most impact on (and benefit to) situational awareness, DE
and hence mission effectiveness
Desired outcome - affordable and objective measures of DE
that can ultimately be used by government scientists and
military and civilian decision makers

What could future sonar be?
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Metamaterials:
Highly sensitive acoustic material. Could
this reduce complexity of electronics
and beamforming?
New materials

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Fractal Arrays:
Optimum space-filling design to cover a
wide range of frequencies. Could this be
used to design a compact and ultra
broadband array?
Arrays designs

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Listening with a 'quantum ear'
(Physics World, Feb 2012)
Quantum Sensing
High-resolution / high-performance
sensing devices. Could this massively
increase the sensitivity of miniature
sensors?
“First Graphene Audio Speaker
Easily Outperforms Traditional
Designs”
(MIT Technology Review, March 2013)
Graphene:
Highly sensitive acoustic material. Could
this lead to next generation of small
and efficient transducers?
Listening and transmitting

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Remote Sensing:
For example, subsurface scanning using
optical or laser techniques. Could this
mean monitoring the underwater
acoustic field from out of the water?
Sensing from out of the water

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New Acoustic Transduction Methods:
For example, utilising the photo-acoustic
effect for underwater applications.
Could this lead to a highly flexible way
of producing sound underwater?
Exploiting known effects

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We are looking for:
innovative ideas leading to a transformational
change in sonar technology

How can technological discoveries and
breakthroughs offer an advantage?
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Chevrons for quieter jets
26 March 2014
From time to time, new and innovative solutions
appear for well-established and much-studied
challenges
NASA has partnered with a range of companies to
develop new techniques for reducing the noise
produced by jet engines
When thinking about future sonar the experience of
the NASA chevron team demonstrates how major
successes can result from the coming together of a
large number of smaller efforts that cut across many
scientific disciplines
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Invitation for proposals
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Invitation for Proposals – Challenge 1
1. Harnessing discovery and invention for future sonar advantage
Solutions that can challenge traditional approaches and lead to a sonar
advantage that can surprise a UK adversary
• Proposals are invited from experts and innovators who are leading the
thinking around the technology under investigation
• Proposals should advance the exploitation readiness of the proposed
solution
• Your choice how you propose to manage the readiness of your solution for
exploitation
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2. Measuring Decision Effectiveness
New measures of decision effectiveness and the tools and techniques to
measure the effectiveness resulting from different systems or processes
• Proposals are invited from leading innovators across all sectors
• Proposals should be at proof-of-concept stage
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3. Non-Destructive Evaluation of Sonar Technology
Techniques that can lead to improved non-destructive evaluation over and
above current techniques
• Proposals are invited from leading innovators across all sectors
• Proposals should be at proof-of-concept or early demonstration stage
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Phase 1
CDE themed competition
Total budget up to £850k
Proposals should be up to 9 months
Contracts should be completed by end of April 2015
Successful organisations will be offered help to better understand the research
requirements and strengthen the relevance of your solution to these
requirements
Plus, invited to take part in one or more network events in the last quarter of
2014 and/or the first quarter of 2015
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Phase 2
Follow-on research and development programme
Successful organisations will be invited to bid for up to 3 years of additional funding to
mature your solution over the medium-term
This is the only planned funding opportunity related to challenge 1
Bids for follow-on funding should be submitted by 19 March 2015
Organisations will be requested to attend an interview at Dstl Portsdown West on 15, 16,
or 17 April 2015
Interview will be looking for confirmation that you understand the potential impact of
your solution and the pathway to impact
Plus, that the bid for follow-on funding would mature the solution and lead to a future
sonar advantage that could eventually be exploited by the Royal Navy
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ExploitationReadiness
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
PHASE 1 PHASE 2
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Submitting a proposal
Proposals for all challenges must be submitted by 1700 on 29 May 2014 using
the Centre for Defence Enterprise Portal
Proposals should state which challenge they are addressing
Proposals should focus on explaining the work that would be carried out in
response to this competition
Plus, the expected outcomes from the work and how the outcomes would be
proven or demonstrated
Proposals will be assessed using the MOD PAF (Performance Assessment
Framework)
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Future Sonar
Harnessing discovery and invention for future sonar
advantage
For PUBLIC RELEASE
Technical questions to dstlmaritimeinnovation@dstl.gov.uk
General questions to CDE at cde@dstl.gov.uk

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