Applied Research in Acoustics LLC SBIR Phase I Award, September 2018

To address the need for oceanography tactics training able to enhance community knowledge of how oceanography impacts antisubmarine-warfare (ASW) prosecution in both analysis and employment of tactical sonar systems, ARiA will build on the success of the ESAIL event reconstruction, scenario-design, and visualization tool for game-based and scenario-based training to develop and demonstrate the feasibility of ESAIL Cloud. The Phase I effort will (1) develop the ESAIL Cloud software-based tool for generation of training content on tactical employment of oceanography that is capable of incorporating adaptive content presentation based on learner progress through knowledge assessments; (2) demonstrate the feasibility of ESAIL Cloud through development of rapid prototype(s); and (3) establish the direction of Phase II and produce plans to develop a prototype in Phase II.