Teledyne to Acquire TransponderTech from Saab
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the TransponderTech business from Saab AB. The acquisition includes a portfolio of connected commercial maritime products, including Automatic Identification System (AIS), VHF Data Exchange System (VDES), and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technologies.Based in Sweden, TransponderTech provides class-leading, SOLAS (Safety of Life at Sea)-certified communications and navigation solutions for commercial maritime, military, and airborne applications. The company is known for its high quality, accurate
Saildrone: USVs Have Only Scratched the Surface of Maritime Security
at Saildrone exceeded the capabilities of the Explorer due to power or speed or size constraints. or all three."Next came Voyager, a 10-meter diesel-hybrid USV that serves as the primary platform for maritime security and shallow water mapping. It features a high-powered radar, automatic identification system (AIS) and a pan-tilt-zoom flare camera. It can also be equipped with shallow-water multi-beam sonar and a sub-bottom profiler. "That's what really gives us that large area coverage; we can conduct geophysical surveys, safety of navigation, offshore energy projects, and subsea
Struggles to Secure Baltic Sea Dominates NATO's 'Freezing Winds '24'
, Commander Pal Bratbak, said onboard the Weilheim, stressing the growing power of technology.NATO's Center for Maritime Research and Experimentation in Italy is launching software that will combine private and military data and imagery from hydrophones, radars, satellites, vessels' Automatic Identification System (AIS) and fibres with Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS), which private telecom companies use to localise cuts in their cables."If we have a good picture of what's going on, then we can deploy units to verify what the system tells us," Bratbak said.German Lieutenant-General
Maritime Risk Symposium 2024 – Great Power Competition and Gray Zone Engagement
conflict, making attribution and response difficult. Artificial intelligence (AI) offers promising solutions to enhance the detection, analysis and mitigation of gray zone cyber threats in the maritime sector. This panel will explore the potential of AI to counter tactics like GPS spoofing, Automatic Identification System manipulation and attacks against port infrastructure. It will examine how machine learning-based systems can identify anomalies in network behavior, detect subtle patterns associated with gray zone activities and automate threat intelligence analysis. The panel will also address the
Saildrone Launches First Next-gen Surveyor USV
first vehicle launched of many that will be produced here in Alabama,” said Saildrone founder and CEO Richard Jenkins. “Everyone at Saildrone is very proud to be supporting the US Navy and contributing to our defense and national security.”The Surveyor fuses radar, cameras, automatic identification system (AIS), and advanced machine learning to deliver comprehensive situational awareness remotely from anywhere in the world. Saildrone offers solutions for challenges like IUU fishing, counter smuggling, and safety of life at sea (SOLAS) missions. The Surveyor detects vessels at sea, even
Sea Machines Debuts AI-ris Computer Vision for Commercial Vessels
or animals, to those very large, like another ship,” said Trevor Vieweg, CTO, Sea Machines. “With the ability to detect, classify and geolocate such targets via optical sensors, AI-ris augments and surpasses the capabilities of existing marine sensor technologies, like radar and automatic identification system (AIS), enabling greater performance and achieving the highest levels of safety. In the future, this technology may also help responders detect marine oil spills.”AI-ris is commercially available now and can be installed aboard existing vessels, as well as new-builds
Unmanned Vessels Help to Protect Threatened Marine Lives in China
Pearl River Estuary Chinese White Dolphin National Nature Reserve.Besides population exploitation, USV technologies also play significant roles in guarding the natural reserve. An autonomous surveillance and rescue vessel is also used for daily patrolling along the set route. Radar and AIS (Automatic Identification System) are applied to real-time monitoring, automatically recording vessels' sailing paths and alerting suspected vessels. Natural reserve protection has become more intelligent and efficient with advanced USV technologies.The Autonomous Surveillance and Rescue Vessel is Expelling a Suspicious
Solar-powered Autonomous Vessel Crosses the Atlantic
powers the drive, plus the steering actuator, electronics and bilge pumps. The steering, communication, hardware integration, navigation and energy management on board are all managed by Mahi’s self-developed USV software. The boat communicates using an onboard satellite modem, GPS and automatic identification system.Mahi Two’s oceangoing adventure started off well, despite spells of bad weather. “The first few months were flawless. Other than adjusting speed to compensate for reduced solar power production, Mahi took on stormy, cloudy days at sea with no problem,” Note said.In
FarSounder, Navtor Partner
the option to have matching map displays on both their ECDIS and FarSounder radar system," said Bjørn Kristian Sæstad, CBDO OEM/SDK at Navtor.“In this release, users will not only have support for NAVTOR ENC chart data included, but they will also be able to bring up Automatic Identification System (AIS) targets and Automatic Radar Plotting Aid (ARPA) targets in the Chart Viewer” said Cheryl M. Zimmerman, CEO, Farsounder. “Support for new NMEA message types associated with AIS and ARPA targets has been added and are easily displayed on the FarSounder stand-alone system
August 2025
