五个研究小组将通过分析海洋生物的行为帮助DARPA检测海底活动
DARPA于2018年2月首次宣布了PALS计划，目标是将生物学纳入新的解决方案
用于监视跨越世界海洋看似无穷无尽的空间的敌人运动。
Northrop Grumman Corporation,
will record and analyze acoustics from snapping shrimp and optical activity by bioluminescent organisms.
the Naval Research Laboratory,
will integrate microbial organisms into a sensing platform to detect and characterize biological signals from natural microorganisms that respond to the magnetic signatures of underwater vehicles.
Florida Atlantic University,
will record and analyze vocalization cues from goliath grouper in tropical and subtropical environments.
Raytheon BBN Technologies,
will use snapping shrimp as sources of opportunity for long-range detection, classification, and tracking of underwater vehicles.
the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science,
will tag black sea bass with sensors to track the depth and acceleration behaviors of schools of fish that are perturbed by underwater vehicles.
DARPA is also funding the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Division Newport,
to develop a seafloor system that uses a hydrophone array and acoustic vector sensor to continuously monitor ambient biological sound in a reef environment for anomalies.