NEWTOWN, Conn. - The primary effort within the United States Navy's ASW Systems Development program is Project 3222: Advanced High-Altitude Anti-Submarine Warfare, which performs studies and analyses to better perform the Air Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) mission on the P-8A aircraft.
The P-8A aircraft, a commercial-derivative Boeing 737 airframe, operates most efficiently at high altitudes.
The purpose of these studies is to explore technologies that may lead to additional high-altitude ASW capabilities.
This program is predicted to see an increase in funding levels (from $6.9 million in 2014 to $8.0 million in 2023, with expectations of even higher levels in the years ahead as the ASW arena begins to receive renewed attention.