Modelling of Difficult Maritime Targets

Polaris has just completed a scoping and feasibility study into the modelling of Difficult Maritime Targets (DMT). The work was conducted for dstl in collaboration with SVGC Limited.

The Aim

UK Naval forces increasingly have to contend with threats that are asymmetric, stealthy or otherwise difficult to observe. Dstl decided that a modelling capability is needed to help the UK MOD assess alternative options - from across the Defence Lines of Development (DLoDs) - for improving the capability of Naval forces to detect, track, recognise and identify these targets.

What we Achieved

In 12 weeks we were able to:

• Capture user requirements and agree a modelling approach
• Produce detailed user and system requirements specifications
• Deliver two complementary prototype software applications which between them:

  • Demonstrate compliance with the user requirements
  • De-risk the modelling approach and the software design strategy

• Propose a staged plan for implementing the required modelling capability