Northrop Grumman fuses anti-sub drone sensors

Northrop Grumman has fused sensor data from autonomous undersea, surface and aerial drones during Navy anti-submarine warfare exercises.

The demonstration took place during the Navy's Annual Naval Technology Exercise at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, Rhode Island.

"Data collected from multiple sensors arrayed across autonomous undersea, surface and air vehicles were fused autonomously to develop a real-time tracking solution that guided a surrogate autonomous air vehicle to engage a contact for live drop of a replica torpedo, for the first time," according to a Northrop Grumman announcement.

"The demonstration featured advanced mission management and control of a multi-vehicle collaborative autonomous system-of-systems conducting full spectrum search, detect, track, classify and engagement of submerged targets," Northrop Grumman said.

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