An Adelaide-led technology project is being progressed for potential use within the Royal Australian Navy’s undersea surveillance, aiming to enhance computerized detection, monitoring and localisation of threats in complicated ocean environments.
Adelaide-based defence software program firm Acacia Systems collaborated with Defence Science and Technology Group, the University of Adelaide, Curtin University and Saab Australia on technology meant to offer higher precision throughout a bigger surveillance space.
The work was framed round bettering operational efficiency by rising the accuracy and vary of computerized detection and bettering the monitoring and localisation of undersea threats. Defence beforehand recognized these challenges as a analysis precedence below the previous Remote Undersea Surveillance STaR Shot program.
The launch stated the project delivered three outcomes: improved potential for computerized detection past present capabilities; choices for extra correct placement of sensors with a better diploma of monitoring; and integration of Acacia’s Onyx platform with Saab’s fight administration system to assist interoperability inside Australia’s warship fight system community.
According to the discharge, the outcomes have led to additional engagement with Defence Science and Technology Group and Navy to discover transitioning the work into an operational functionality.
The South Australian Government offered $1.6 million by the Defence Innovation Partnership’s Activator Fund, which helps the interpretation of defence applied sciences into operational use by the Australian Defence Force.
Chris Picton stated: “This is exactly the kind of cutting-edge capability we want being developed right here in South Australia, technology that strengthens our national security while backing local jobs and expertise.”
Picton added: “By improving the detection, tracking and localisation of undersea threats, this technology has the potential to give the Royal Australian Navy a sharper edge in increasingly complex environments.”
Bob Humphreys, CEO of Acacia Systems, stated: “The success of the Activator project benefitted enormously from having an absolute clarity of vision – to enhance Australia’s sovereign capability in autonomous undersea surveillance aligned with one of Defence’s investment priorities focussed on undersea warfare and uncrewed maritime systems.”
Humphreys stated Acacia intends to combine the analysis outcomes into its Onyx computerized menace detection and monitoring system inside the subsequent 12 months. He added that Onyx is already supporting Defence’s contributions to the Australian Government’s Operation Resolute commitments with the Ocius Bluebottles.