DoD Looks for Advance Underwater Communication Solutions
U.S.'s Defense Innovation Unit, Australia's Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator, and the UK's Defence and Security Accelerator, the Challenge is seeking commercial companies with solutions that will enhance the tactical and operational capabilities of undersea command, control and communications while maintaining the integrity and security of communication for sea vehicles, even in the harshest underwater conditions.The AUKUS nations — Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States — are spearheading the next frontier in underwater warfare, says DoD.Following the conclusion
OPT Scoops $2M PowerBuoy Order from Latin America
from a customer in Latin America.OPT’s next generation PowerBuoy, to be delivered to unnamed customer, can be deployed for long durations in water depths ranging from coastal to deep ocean water and support payload above and below the surface.The systems can be equipped with a range of communication solutions."We are thrilled to add PowerBuoys to our offering in Latin America. This order builds on the growth of our WAM-V solutions that we have seen in this region recently. We believe adding PowerBuoys will enable our customers to add permanent monitoring and marine intelligence solutions
Hydramec's LARS for Fugro's Uncrewed Surface Vessels
the payload has on vessel stability, Hydramec said.The whole system will be controlled remotely from one of Fugro’s onshore Remote Operation Centres using a combination of a local control system, designed and built by Scantrol in Norway, and Fugro’s own over the horizon software and communication solutions.Credit: HydramechSea-Kit's Uncrewed Surface Vessel Ends 22-Day Offshore Missio
Ocean Startup Challenge Awards 14 Companies $25K Each
. Their solution saves users more than 30% on material and labor, while increasing or maintaining asset lifetime, reducing toxin exposure/imprint, and providing a high-volume value add for a fishery waste stream.Marecomms Inc. (Halifax, NS) designs and builds robust and broadband wireless communication solutions for maritime environments. Their first underwater wireless communication product, RObust Acoustic Modem (ROAM), has been put to numerous tests in challenging ocean environments in the North Atlantic and shown to offer nearly 200 times faster connection speeds than the existing solutions
AUV Project Boosts Endurance, Navigation Capabilities
as onboard battery capacity and navigational accuracy degradation over time, has meant that the role these vehicles have had to play has been largely restricted to relatively short deployments.“As the only company that produces an all-in-one hybrid acoustic-inertial-Doppler navigation and communication solutions for AUVs and USVs, we were uniquely placed to collaborate with the NOC and L3Harris to realise the ambitious aims of the P3AUV project.“By developing and integrating each organisation’s technologies, including our own SPRINT-Nav navigation instrument, we’ve proven it&rsquo
Teledyne Benthos Acoustic Modems Meet NATO’s New JANUS Interoperability Standard
acoustic communication (ACOMMS) hardware.Subsea ACOMMS technology has come a long way over the past two decades and is now commonly used as a primary communication and data link to the vast proliferation of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). Although there are a number of commercial communication solutions and protocols available, until recently, there has not been a set standard to ensure the interoperability between equipment from the various ACOMMS manufacturers.To address this need, over the past 10 years the Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation has been leading the efforts
New Oilfield Comms Products from Moog Focal
Environmental Stress Screening (ESS). Deepak Jagannathan, Subsea Controls Product Leader and Senior Electronics Engineer for Moog Focal said, “The release of the QSS supports the technology trend towards developing smarter subsea systems with a growing demand for higher bandwidth communication solutions over longer distances. In addition to the release of the QSS, we anticipate the introduction of more complimentary modules shortly that will provide a comprehensive portfolio of Subsea Oilfield Communication products.&rdquo
New Ocean ICT Expo Planned for OI London
. “While Oceanology International is primarily about the technology, instrumentation, sensor and support platforms required for observing, measuring and operating in the world’s oceans, Ocean ICT Expo is a new platform for the industry to connect with the makers of the IT and communication solutions that enable the delivery, storage and analysis of the ever increasing amounts of data acquired from the ocean,” said David Ince, Event Manager, Reed Exhibitions
James Fisher Acquires Visual Information Businesses
for complex security situations. Used by police forces across the U.K., Europe, U.S. and Canada, R2S Forensic has provided support to high profile cases as the Hillsborough Investigation and for the security planning of the 2013 G8 summit. Max and Co delivers digital visualization and communication solutions to a wide range of industry clients such as GE, Fugro, DNV and Peak. Nick Henry, CEO of James Fisher and Sons plc, commented, “We see great potential in the combined provision of our specialist services and the dynamic visual information and creative capabilities of
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