CDE future sonar webinar

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Funding research

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Future Sonar Harnessing discovery and invention for future sonar

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Enduring challenge competition

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£3M per year

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Enduring challenges

• protection • situational awareness • power • communications • data • lethality • mobility • human performance • lower cost of ownership • new capabilities

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Current ship-borne ASW

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Active sensing for anti-submarine warfare

Future distributed ASW


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Active sensing for mine countermeasures Current MCM sensing

Future MCM sensing

What would a sonar advantage look like for active sonar?

What are the challenges?

• 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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Passive sensing for submarines Current platforms

Future platforms




What are the challenges?

• 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

What would a sonar advantage look like for passive sonar?

Measuring the benefits of sonar improvements to decision effectiveness



Mission Effectiveness

Decision Effectiveness

Situational Awareness

Tactical Picture Quality

Improved capability

New measures, tools and techniques

Non-destructive evaluation of sonar technology



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

• 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



What could future sonar be?

Listening with a 'quantum ear' (Physics World, Feb 2012)

“First Graphene Audio Speaker Easily Outperforms Traditional Designs” (MIT Technology Review, March 2013)

How can technological discoveries and breakthroughs offer an advantage?



Image courtesy of The Boeing Company / Bob Ferguson

Invitation for Proposals – Challenge 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

• Develop game changing technology

• Develop and maintain UK capability in underwater acoustic sensing




Measuring Decision Effectiveness

How effective is the application of new technology (sonar / processing / automated displays) in improving decision effectiveness?

We are looking for 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




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?

We are looking for 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



Phase 1 CDE themed competition

Total budget up to £850k (£600k reserved for challenge 1)

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



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, this competition is the single entry point into this technology area

• Total budget for follow-on programme is over £600k per annum

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



Submitting a proposal

The deadline for submitting proposals for all challenges is 1700 on 29 May 2014 using the Centre for Defence Enterprise Portal

The challenge being addressed should be stated in the proposal title

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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