Engineering Services

MIKEL provides professional engineering services that encompass all phases of research, development, test and evaluation. These efforts include application of fundamental technologies in the development of problem solutions, development of prototype systems demonstrating the technology, field testing of the systems under actual operational conditions and evaluation of deployed systems for overall performance analysis. Products range from technical reports and refereed journal articles, to prototype systems coupled with technical specifications of sufficient detail to transition the prototype system into production. MIKEL also develops a range of analysis tools used to evaluate systems, tactics, and operator performance.

Combat System Improvements

Our personnel have developed innovative processing algorithms, forming the basis for some components in today’s submarine combat systems. They are responsible for the development of the first ever towed array target motion analysis (TMA) algorithm installed on a U.S. submarine as well as multi-sensor TMA algorithms to determine the 3D position of all targets. Current efforts include sonar and combat system improvements for close-in approach and attack scenarios, see Figure 3. The work implements new sphere bearing trackers for high bearing rate tactical situations by compensating for higher order bearing dynamics (i.e., bearing acceleration). Further automation improvements include matching bearing and bearing rate and computing the corrected intercept firing solution based on operator-constrained target parameters.