Red Sea Cable Cuts Emphasize Infrastructure Resilience
According to AP News, multiple undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea have disrupted internet access across Yemen, the Gulf, and as far as India and Pakistan. Microsoft confirmed connectivity degradation, while NetBlocks and national operators in Kuwait and Pakistan reported outages affecting major international cable systems.The cause of the incident remains unclear. Experts note that ship anchors, natural hazards, or deliberate attacks can sever subsea cables. The Red Sea disruption comes amid heightened regional tensions and follows warnings from governments that subsea infrastructure could be targeted.
Machine Learning Versus Statistics
can learn from data and make accurate predictions or decisions without being explicitly programmed. The focus is on the model's performance using large datasets in practical applications, such as classifying images, recognizing speech or predicting behavior.The authors of the pipeline study, from Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, compared four machine learning systems with statistical regression analysis and found that the machine learning provided better predictive performance (lower Mean Squared Error values across most target variables).Machine learning models, such as Extreme Gradient
Saab Makes Double Eagle ROV Sale to Kuwait
Saab has received a contract from the U.S. Navy for a Double Eagle Semi-Autonomous Remotely Operated Vehicle (SAROV) for the Kuwait Naval Force.The Double Eagle family of undersea vehicles is an ROV system used by navies globally supporting mine countermeasure (MCM) missions. In the SA¬ROV configuration the vehicle can be used both as an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) for detection, classification and identification, and as an ROV for mine disposal. The U.S. Navy is procuring this system as a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program for the State of Kuwait’s Naval Force.Developed and
US Navy Orders Saab UUVs for Kuwait
associated storage containers, training naval mines, spare parts, training documentation, training and transportation, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.This contract, which was not competitively procured in accordance with 10 U.S. Code 3204(a)(4), involves Foreign Military Sales to the State of Kuwait, the Pentagon said.Work will be performed in Cranston, R.I. (75%); and Syracuse, N.Y. (25%), and is expected to be completed by September 2025
Elcome, Miros Ink Distribution Deal
agreement with Miros AS, the Norway-headquartered wave, current and oil spill monitoring specialist.The partnership expands the distribution of Miros’ comprehensive range of sea state sensor and measurement solutions to Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, namely UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar.Miros’ portfolio of sea state measurement solutions provides accurate, real-time data for weather-sensitive operations at sea, as well as offering input to asset integrity systems and coastal monitoring. Its dry-mounted, radar-based sensors provide maritime and offshore
ROVOP Opens Middle East Hub
all managed and operated in-country.Middleton said the new hub will provide a quality of ROV service that was not widely available there previously.“ROVOP already has equipment on the ground in the region, and so is ready to fulfill our customers needs immediately in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar,” he added.The company is currently expanding, having added 19 ROVS to its fleet last month, bringing ROVOP’s total operational fleet to 51
Subsea Defense: Extending Unmanned Capabilities
when there’s a concern that U.S. and U.K. antisubmarine warfare (ASW) capability has been lost, as a result of ships being scrapped and research and development curtailment following the end of the cold war, Iain Shepherd, Technical Director, MARCOM Defence told UDT. “Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait meant a land and air force focus,” he said. “Today, I think we have lost 15-20 years in ASW development.”Marine autonomous systems (MAS), including AUVs, unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) and or “off-board” sensors are part of the solution, to extend the reach of existing
Oil Plus bags $1.5 mi Middle East Deals
, the Newbury-based company, which employs in excess of 30 people, plans to recruit another eight over the next 12 months. The contracts will see Oil Plus deliver reservoir souring modelling, production chemistry and iron sulfide studies for several international oil companies in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Brazil, Thailand and Europe. Oil Plus has gone from strength to strength under its new ownership and management team having achieved significant growth since it was acquired by Mark Cavanagh last year. Since 1978, Oil Plus has worked with more than 250 upstream oil and gas companies
Meet the Future of Visualization and Mapping Sonars
the project and the number of tasks carried out by the real-time 3D system rapidly increased as the project progressed. Our breakwater customers, such as SGTM-STFA and Van Oord have also reported significant project success using the Echoscope. This has included operation by Van Oord on the Kuwait National Petroleum Company project to construct a port and breakwater. The breakwater was armoured with 24,000 Core-LocTM concrete blocks and the Echoscope real-time 3D sonar was mounted on the installation excavator to provide imaging of each block. Productivity rates of up to 200 blocks per day
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