Acacia Systems is set to lead $1.6 million research project funded by the SA Government on Royal Australian Navy‘s undersea surveillance.
Acacia Systems is honoured to lead the research project, “Enhancing the RAN’s Undersea Surveillance Minimum Viable Capability”, which has just received a $1.6 million investment by the Government of South Australia, as announced by Susan Close, SA Deputy Premier and Minister for Defence and Space Industries. The funding is provided through the Defence Innovation Partnership‘s Activator Fund and run in collaboration with Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG).
Horden Wiltshire, Acacia Systems CEO, comments, “Led by Acacia, the program will bring together world-leading researchers from the University of Adelaide, University of South Australia, and Curtin University with support from DSTG. It will apply the latest research in the areas of multi-object tracking, reinforcement learning, and large language models to improve the RAN’s persistent undersea surveillance capability.” Thales Australia is supporting the project via the provision of sonar data sets from their Bluesentry Autonomous Sonar Payload and Saab Australia their Combat Management System (CMS) development facilities at Mawson Lakes.
Through this project, Acacia looks forward to delivering improved operational performance by increasing the accuracy and range of automatic detection, tracking, and localisation of undersea threats. The outcomes of this project will enhance Australia’s sovereign capability, which is a core mission at Acacia Systems.
