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Centre Defence Enterprise
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Themed Competition Briefings
CDE themed competition
Future sonar
Themed competition
Requirements
Bounded
Specific
Innovation Network events
Advice
Opportunity
Networking
Centre for Defence Enterprise Future Sonar Harnessing discovery and invention for future sonar advantage
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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
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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
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Submarine capability
Remote Mine Countermeasures
Anti Submarine Warfare
Geospatial intelligence gathering
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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
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Proud Manta experiment
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Current MCM sensing
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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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What would a sonar advantage look 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
What would a sonar advantage look 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
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Decision Effectiveness (DE)
Situational Awareness (SA)
Tactical Picture Quality (TPQ)
Improved capability
Measure
Measuring decision effectiveness Aims
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• 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
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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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Invitation for Proposals – Challenge 2
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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Invitation for Proposals – Challenge 3
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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Exploitation Readiness
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
PHASE 1 PHASE 2
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
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Technical questions to [email protected]
General questions to CDE at [email protected]