The U.S. Navy's unmet operational needs (UONs), including the anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) threat, extend both to the antisubmarine and sea mine countermea-sures (MCM) realms of naval undersea warfare. "The most persistent problem in both ASW [anti-submarine warfarel and MCM are the many target false alarms incorrectly classified as targets from sonar sensors," said R.Adm. John Pearson, U.S. Navy (retired), the 1980 winner of the U.S. Navy Surface Force, Atlantic Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare Award and commander of the U.S. Navy Mine Warfare Command from 1991 to 1996. "This adversely affects real-time sonar operators' decisions, remote-sensor post-mission analysis decisions, unnecessarily wastes scarce and very expensive weapons, and injects significant time delays in detect-to-engage sequences."
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