Aegis Anti-Air Warfare Tactical Decision Aids

PL has been developing shipboard tactical decision aids since 1986 to address the needs of the Aegis warfighter. These efforts have applied a legacy of anti-air warfare experience since the 1970s through radar simulation, propagation analysis, environmental assessment, field testing, and U.S. Navy exercise support. The Laboratory has delivered several capabilities to the operational Navy. Central to these successes was the development, starting in 1993, of a prototype system known as SEAWASP for defining requirements and demonstrating capabilities. Lessons learned from the prototype allowed deployment of a limited-capability rapid technology-insertion effort across the Aegis Fleet. In parallel, SEAWASP development continued, culminating in long-term installations of SEAWASP operational prototypes on USS Anzio and USS Cape St. George, through four deployments from 1996 to 2001. Currently, SEAWASP’s Environmental Assessment System is being transitioned to production as a major component of SMOOS(R)—the Navy’s Shipboard Meteorological and Oceanographic Observation System (Replacement)—and the Moriah sensor system to support N096 requirements.