MuST TRL7 Dry Tortugas Spring 2025

The objective of this project is to further demonstrate the performance of a system that uses a MultiSensor Towbody (MuST) to deploy detection, classification, and geolocation hardware from a surface vessel. The system design was carried out under a SERDP effort MR-2501 . MuST was developed and tested via the ESTCP project MR18-5004 . This project is a three-year effort that includes three field operations. The second and third field efforts will be in operational environments specified by ESTCP and Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command/United States Army Corps of Engineers. These are anticipated to be carried out in March 2025 and March 2026. The first effort would be a formal demonstration (including demonstration of the overall sensor integration and software package development) in Sequim Bay in September 2023 with the following performance objectives: (1) percent of seeded unexploded ordnances (UXO) detected/correctly classified (Pc) > 0.94, and less than five false alarms within blind test area, (2) geolocation to within 2 meters for 90% of the targets of interest, and (3) completion of all survey lines at each approach angle each day.