Preliminary Design Study for Munitions Response Underwater Test Site

The objective of Parson's proposal is to conduct a preliminary design study on a re-deployable underwater test bed that will accommodate data collection by different sensor modalities and systems over carefully emplaced test items. Although not entirely re-deployable in the strict sense of the word, the idea is that the item emplacement aspect of the test bed makes use of special re-deployable materials that ensures a consistent predefined, yet flexible, emplacement process. In this way, by using this emplacement process at separate locations within one or more sites, comparative testing not only across modalities and systems but also across a variety of conditions may be possible.