The Navy wants a mission planning tool for manned-unmanned undersea missions.
The system would allow planners to visualize the underwater battlefield, including "sensor deployments, gain better understanding of other platforms' sensor capabilities, and determining how changing variables (e.g. Target of Interest (TOI) depth, change in sensor depth, water column changes, etc.) will increase or decrease the likelihood of detection is required," according to the Navy research solicitation.
"Applying advanced visualization techniques will provide mission planners the ability to see the problem space in three-dimensions with the effects of dynamically placing (select, drag, and drop) sensors (position and depth) and display the effected detection areas (based on percent of detection) and gaps in coverage," the Navy said.
