Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Detection of Surface and Near-Surface Drifting/Oscillating Mines

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The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is seeking white papers describing innovative technology solutions leading to wide-area detection, classification, localization and tracking of surface and near-surface drifting / oscillating mines and prediction of mine drift from direct environmental observations and ocean models to support tactical planning. Surface and near-surface drifting mines include: mines designed to drift on the ocean surface; mines designed to drift and oscillate near the ocean surface within a preset depth range; improvised explosive devices intentionally cast adrift to harass maritime traffic; and moored mines intentionally or unintentionally separated from a tether. There are two distinct but strongly connected products that work together to enable effective planning and conduct of mine countermeasures (MCM) operations in drifting mine environments. They are: (1) Compact Modular Sensor / Processing Suite (CMSS), and; (2) Mine Drift Tactical Decision Aid (TDA). It is likely that mature hardware solutions already exist and that the required innovation will come from the optimization of a sensor suite, the development of real-time target************************************************************************************************************************************************ The FULL ANNOUNCEMENT is available on the Grants.gov website by scrolling to the top of the synopsis page and clicking on the "FULL ANNOUNCEMENT" box surrounded by the dotted line at the top of the page.

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