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DARPA eyes bistatic sonar with UUV-based pingers to preserve submarine stealth
April 19, 2016
By John Keller
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ARLINGTON, Va. - U.S. military researchers are asking for industry's help in developing a bistatic sonar system for anti-submarine warfare (ASW) that capitalizes on the benefits of active sonar without compromising the stealth of U.S. attack submarines.
Officials of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., released a solicitation (DARPA-BAA-16-10) for the Mobile Offboard Command and Control and Approach (MOCCA) program.
DARPA's MOCCA program seeks to enable manned Navy submarines to use active sonar pings from nearby unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) to detect and track enemy submarines at long ranges without giving away their presence to potentially hostile vessels.
The rest of the article at: http://www.militaryaerospace.com/ar...ed-pingers-to-preserve-submarine-stealth.html
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This article is from over a year ago, but I thought it was an interesting concept.
