US Navy Awards $11.3M to Develop AI That Reads the Ocean's Acoustic Soundscape for Undersea Warfare

The US Office of Naval Research exercised an $11.3 million contract option with Integer Technologies to continue work on using passive acoustic soundscape data for undersea, seabed and subsea warfare. The research combines physics-based and machine-learning models to interpret ocean acoustics aboard crewed and uncrewed platforms, giving operators and autonomous systems information they can use to adapt missions without manually analysing raw recordings. The Navy obligated approximately $7.6 million at award for the incrementally funded work, which is expected to run through October 2029 in Durham, New Hampshire.