Thanks to its optimized weight and size, ULISSES is suitable for installation on small platforms both manned and uncrewed (UAV, USV, RHIB) while remaining backwards compatible with dipping Sonar Sub-Systems, typically installed on medium/heavy class helicopters.
Thanks to a cutting edge system architecture the uncrewed version is composed by a single box, about 11kg weight.

Accurate Search, detection, localization and classification of targets in shallow and blue waters, thanks to an automatic classification library. ULISSES is designed to reduce operator workload, it is in fact able to provide automatic detection (autoalert), automatic tracking of multiple targets and passive signature classification. ULISSES also provides Buoy Map, Passive and Active Energy Map and Graphic Aids. Information provided are complemented with Sound velocity profile and environment noise measurement.

The ULISSES system, in its full version, is composed of a Sonobuoy Processor, able to process up to 64 sonobuoys; a VHF receiver; a Common Function Transmitter; VHF/UHF Antennas. The sonobuoys and antennas can be provided directly by the Customer or optionally provided by Leonardo.
ULISSES supports a variety of sonobuoys including but not limited to : LOFAR, WIDEBAND LOFAR, DIFAR, VLAD, BATHY, HIDAR, ALFEA, CAMBS, LFA, ANM, DICASS. Ulisses processor card can be integrated into Leonardo’s Telemachus transmitter/receiver, thus offering a perfect ultralight solution for UAVs.

The ULISSES system can be fully remotized, this allows to have the data coming from ULISSES integrated with the information available in the Land Command Center or on a ship, thus guaranteeing a complete situation awareness above and under water. This is possible also thanks to the Wide Band Data Link which is already integrated into the ULISSES system.