Adaptive Methods hosts USW-DSS Review

Saturday, 12 May 2007 22:03

On May 8-10, 2007, Adaptive Methods hosted the Naval Sea Systems Command review of Undersea Warfare-Decision Support System (USW-DSS) at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s (UTC) SimCenter.  Participants at the review included program managers and engineers from Navy headquarters in Washington, DC and Naval Warfare Centers in Newport RI, Keyport WA, Bethesda MD, and Dahlgren VA.  An industry team of 12 businesses from across the country reported current status and proposed future plans for undersea warfare technology development programs.

Conference attendees mapped out plans for the next 2 years to deploy the latest USW command and control products on Navy ships and command centers.  State of the art facilities to accommodate the nearly 50 participants were provided by UTC SimCenter.  SimCenter Director Dr. Dave Whitfield commented “We were exceptionally pleased to be able to host the event for Adaptive Methods and the Navy Program Office.  Feedback from your group is they will be back here again soon.”

The Undersea Warfare Command and Control Program for Undersea Systems (PEO IWS5)  is delivering advanced computer automation technology, battle management aids, and a modern combat information center display suite for navy ships and shore-based command sites.  The USW-DSS will incorporate technologies from a cooperative team of Navy laboratory and private industry businesses.  USW-DSS will provide at-sea commanders with tools to control the Navy’s latest sonar and weapon systems to better protect our combat forces and valued shipping lanes from enemy mines and submarines.

Adaptive Methods opened its Chattanooga office in October 2005.  The company develops advanced sensor processing and computing architecture products for surveillance, security, and military combat systems. The Virginia based corporation’s Chattanooga office was established to further the company’s technology transition objectives and to seek new advanced technology business development opportunities. 

The UT SimCenter at Chattanooga is a computational engineering research and education center that specializes in high-fidelity, physics-based computational modeling and simulation, using high-performance scientific supercomputing to solve physical problems that arise in engineering analysis and design applications from any engineering discipline.  The SimCenter has established, within academia, a culture of multidisciplinary team research and education centered about real-world problem solving. Its Research Program is focused by multiple practical applications in engineering and sciences that require supercomputer simulations to achieve significant advances in future engineered products and systems. M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computational Engineering are offered through the UTC Graduate School of Computational Engineering, an innovative program that emphasizes multidisciplinary team research within the SimCenter.  For more information on UT SimCenter at Chattanooga, visit their website at http://www.utc.edu/Research/SimCenter .