White House Could Bypass UN on Deep-Sea Mining
in the hands of a global body that oversees access and resolves disputes.Part of Trump's hunt for fresh sources of critical minerals has to do with efforts to reduce China's broad control over their production and processing, with Beijing beginning to block exports of key minerals used in defense applications.It was not immediately clear what kind of staffing NOAA would require to review deep-sea mining permits. Like many U.S. federal government agencies, NOAA has seen job cuts as part of Trump's efficiency push with Elon Musk.Deep-sea mining is also more technically complex than mining on
Greensea IQ Marks Record Breaking Year with 57% Revenue Increase
Marine robotics specialist Greensea IQ has closed a record-breaking year of growth in 2024, with a 57% year-over-year increase in topline revenue from 2023.The achievement was driven by the continued adoption of Greensea’s robot autonomy platform for defense applications and within the commercial sectors.Also, the widespread adoption of the company’s Bayonet Autonomous Underwater Ground Vehicles (AUGVs) and IQNS intelligent navigation systems, as well as the successful securing of key contracts with the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and foreign militaries, were key factors.Among the most
Greensea IQ Contract to Further Develop USN Autonomous Vehicle
navigation and processing through IQNS. A lighter weight deployment through IQNS Mini will also be available. IQNS with EOD Edge will be available in Q4 2024 on Greensea’s Bayonet product line of Autonomous Underwater Ground Vehicle (AUGV) robots and for the VideoRay Defender in defense applications
Merrigan Joins Teledyne RD Instruments
me to help our customers problem-solve and collect robust observations in many settings.”Teledyne RD Instruments, founded in 1982 and a part of Teledyne Marine, designs and manufactures wave measurement, current profiling, and precision navigation solutions used in academic, commercial, and defense applications
Teledyne to Acquire Valeport
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated announced on Tuesday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Valeport Holdings Limited and its affiliates. Valeport, founded in 1969 and headquartered in Totnes, U.K., designs and manufactures underwater sensors for environmental, energy, construction and defense applications. Terms of the transactions were not disclosed.Valeport provides complementary underwater sensors including sound velocity probes, current and flow meters, and conductivity, temperature and depth sensors. Valeport also provides multi-parameter profilers which can also measure turbidity or cloudiness
Oceaneering Freedom AUV Gets a Look for Defense Applications
Oceaneering International said its Aerospace and Defense Technologies (ADTech) business segment won a contract by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), a U.S. Department of Defense organization, for the development and testing of the Freedom Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) as a potential Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (LDUUV) prototype for the U.S. Navy’s Program Office for Advanced Undersea Systems.The contract includes a Manufacturing Readiness Review to assess current production capacity and tradeoffs that could be performed to speed LDUUV capabilities to the fleet.The
RTsys Takes Delivery of More Teledyne DVLs
and drones specialist RTsys announced continued collaboration with Teledyne Marine with further orders for RDI DVLs as demand continues to grow for its range of specialist AUVs comprising of the SEMA ASW training target, COMET-300, NemoSens AUV and µAUV for scientific, industrial and defense applications.RTsys said it took delivery of 20 Pathfinder DVLs and 10 Wayfinder DVLs“When it comes to performance, navigational accuracy is no place to compromise,” said Pierre-Alexandre Caux of RTsys. “Compact and accurate, the RDI DVLs therefore present the perfect fit for our range
Kraken inks $2.7m in Sonar, Subsea Battery Contracts
Kraken Robotics Inc. (TSX-V: PNG, OTCQB: KRKNF) received contracts totalling $2.7m for subsea batteries and synthetic aperture sonar systems (SAS). The SAS sensor contracts represent two new customers, continuing the growth of Kraken's list of users. One customer is a European Research Institute operating next-generation AUVs, and the other is a NATO member country in underwater defense applications. Deliveries will occur in 2024.
Greensea Demonstrates Untethered ROV Operation at Sea
at sea, Greensea said it was able to demonstrate that a VideoRay Defender outfitted with OPENSEA Edge was able to search, classify, map, and inspect during a mock EOD mission while being untethered. Operators supervised the autonomous ROV through Greensea’s EOD Workspace user interface for defense applications, the company said.©GreenseaOver-the-horizon CommsGreensea also utilized its safe C2 (standoff command and control) technology to provide seafloor to over-the-horizon communications. This enabled the supervision of the ROV over very low bandwidth and very high latency-sparse data connections
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