Blue Venture In-Water Equipment Demo Day
, the Blue Tech ecosystem located in Southeastern New England was on full display. Companies were given time to introduce their products to the standing-room-only audience in the upper level of the Roger Williams University Sailing Center followed by in water demonstrations off the docks facing Narragansett Bay.To kick things off, Kevin Rosa, founder of Current Lab, provided a high resolution forecast of the current conditions around the in-water demo area. Its proprietary ocean modeling system generates predictions of currents, temperature and salinity at up to 50 times finer detail than conventional
Naval War College Professor Shares History, Breadth of Unmanned Systems
80-foot-long Echo Voyager unmanned submarine ¬− capable of launching unmanned aerial vehicles, missiles, mines, or torpedoes, carrying Navy SEALs, and diving to a depth of 11,000 feet.The Snakehead Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (LDUUV), christened at Division Newport’s Narragansett Bay Test Facility last February, was among Jackson’s examples.“Snakehead is a very large diameter UUV that has demonstrated the potential to meet the operational demands of the warfighters for long periods and stealthy surveillance in the undersea battlespace,” Jackson said.The
US Navy Demonstrates New LARS for Large UUVs
led by a U.S. Navy team recently demonstrated a new launch and recovery concept for large unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs), with staff from the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport and HII, which is headquartered in Virginia.The demonstration, conducted at Division Newport’s Narragansett Bay Test Facility in October, showed both a land-based launch and recovery approach and a new solution for launching large UUVs from U.S. Navy amphibious ships. The demonstration included the Snakehead large displacement unmanned undersea vehicle (LDUUV) prototype, and the Pharos large launch and
Bionet Sonar Tests Underwater Wireless Network at NUWC Division Newport
Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport recently assisted Massachusetts-based small business Bionet Sonar by underwater testing its new wireless technology called HydroNet at the Narragansett Bay Test Facility for two days in February.HydroNet is an open, modular and programmable underwater modem that powers an autonomous wireless communications system bringing the internet underwater and empowering the network with artificial intelligence-driven, software-defined technologies.Its plug-and-play capability with remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs)
URI Unveils Name of New Research Vessel
The National Science Foundation’s new Regional Class Research Vessel that will soon call the University of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay Campus home has a name: Narragansett Dawn.Graduate School of Oceanography Dean Paula S. Bontempi announced the name of the new $125 million vessel after a nationwide competition and approval from the NSF.“Narragansett Dawn acknowledges the Indigenous peoples’ histories, ancestors, and perseverance in our communities today,” said URI President David M. Dooley. “It honors their stewardship of the land, sea and resources that they
Innovation @ URI: The smallest deep-sea system that can provide a livestream video feed
before the pandemic started, but did the bulk of the testing during the pandemic.In the summer of 2020, he deployed the system a couple of times in the Narrow River in Rhode Island, where the water was calm and flat. He used his own personal boat for the test. Another conducted another test in Narragansett Bay, near Newport.The first deep-water test took place later in the summer on a day-long boat trip to Atlantis Canyon, 100 miles off the coast of Falmouth, Massachusetts."Because of the pandemic, a lot of larger boats were inaccessible at that time," said Phillips. "But because we
Dive Technologies Completes Sea Trials with Kraken Sonar, Batteries
range and resolution and associated higher ACR of SAS offers a powerful capability when combined with the long range and endurance of the DIVE-LD.Sea trials were conducted from March 29 to April 8, 2021, held in Shallow Water and Very Shallow Water environments, in and around Buzzards Bay, MA and Narragansett Bay, RI. Due to COVID travel restrictions, Kraken personnel provided support remotely throughout the integration and sea trials with the DIVE-LD. Immediately following sea trials, Dive was also able to conduct a number of customer demonstrations for commercial and defense customers.“We are
OSIL, URI Collaborate on Research Project
for instrument protection, and its modular manufacture makes the buoy easy to ship and assemble on-site following delivery. The buoy frame design has also been modified to allow an autonomous water sampler system to be connected to the bottom of the buoys.The buoys are to be deployed year-round in Narragansett Bay, while the land-based deck unit is to be housed in a permanent monitoring station set up within a disused lighthouse. All systems will host a range of SeaBird sensors in addition to a full suite of meteorological instruments and GPS tracking fitted to the data buoys
Aquabotix Enters R&D Partnership with US Navy
Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport.Division Newport of NUWC is a Federal laboratory of the U.S. Department of Navy whose substantial purpose is the performance of research, development, and engineering. Under the CRADA signed between Aquabotix and the U.S. Navy, Aquabotix will gain access to the Narragansett Bay Test Facility (NBTF), including its ranges and personnel, to test and demonstrate Aquabotix’s SwarmDiver product and other relevant technologies for this United States Naval laboratory and other interested parties.Whitney Million, Aquabotix’s CEO, commented, “We are honored
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