The Undersea Systems Focus Area addresses innovative affordable, persistent and stealthy undersea systems that leverage the asymmetric U.S. Navy advantage afforded by subsurface operations.
Undersea Systems Focus Area Lead:
Dr. Teresa McMullen
teresa.a.mcmullen.civ@us.navy.mil
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Research Areas
New Undersea Weapon Concepts
- Advanced propulsion systems
- Man-portable, very lightweight weapons
Rapid-Reaction Undersea Weapons and Countermeasures
- Neutralization of late-detected torpedoes
- Soft-kill countermeasure concepts
Advanced Concepts for Sea Warfare and Weapons
- Novel power generation and energy storage
- Atmospheric effects for directed-energy weapons
Undersea Warheads
- Warhead effects modeling
- Advanced formulations for higher explosive yield
- Advanced fuzing concepts
Field Experimentation Program
- Early testing of new weapon warhead, vehicle and sensor concepts
Naval Undersea Research Program
- Workforce development for Navy labs
Cooperative Autonomous Swarm Technology (CAST)
- Swarming (salvo) technology to enable weapon force multiplication
- Cooperative swarms algorithms for undersea weapon and vehicle health/fault management