UK Subsea Robotics Firm SMD Sets Sights on Exceeding £100m Turnover in Five Years
on the Tyne and that won’t change. As we move forward and start to cement our service offering, we are planning on opening a dedicated customer service centre and will need new people to support our clients. In addition, we want to open an R&D facility and will need engineers and software developers to shape the future of SMD’s products and services.”The company said that branching into a more service-led model is key for SMD and it recently announced a framework agreement with Dutch offshore installation firm, Van Oord, under which it not only supplied its equipment for an
VideoRay Integrator Program Announcement
VideoRay launched an Integrator Program to address growing customer demand to customize its Mission Specialist products. VideoRay's Integrator program brings sensor and tooling manufacturers and software developers together with VideoRay’s Engineering and Support staff to create new configurations for challenging environments and missions.VideoRay customers will gain access to more sensor, tooling, and software integrations through this new program, including autonomy and artificial intelligence, without sacrificing the quality, warranty, and support they depend on from VideoRay. Certified
Kraken Robotics Buys Brazil's 13 Robotics
Canada-based offshore robotics company Kraken Robotics has acquired Brazil's 13 Robotics Ltda of Brazil (“13R”).The 13R team, with offices in Rio de Janeiro and Salvador, Brazil, consists of software developers and engineers who have significant experience in underwater robotics and autonomous systems for the energy markets, Kraken said."Since inception in 2013, 13R have completed projects for a number of global energy companies, with a focus on autonomous underwater inspection in offshore oil and gas as well as renewable energy," Kraken said.Commenting on the acquisition
NUWC Division Newport Names Chhim Director of Cybersecurity for Undersea Warfare
, managing the posture transition process onboard U.S. submarines, and was responsible for working with PMS 425 on the cybersecurity toolkit development, integration and test, delivery, operations, validation and fleet training. Critical to this was the complex work that she conducted with software developers ensuring that SWFTS subsystems successfully integrated the cybersecurity capabilities and performed the appropriate testing to validate its cybersecurity integrity.Chhim earned a bachelor’s degree in object-oriented mathematics from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth in 2005
Underwater Vehicle Propulsion Tech: Tail Shape and Vehicle-Propulsor Performance
a reduced-order analytical flow code for NavCad to provide design prediction of body pressures, hull form drag, boundary layer velocity distribution, and thrust deduction. We are also leading an effort to support designers with a pipeline for the use of CFD in UV body design. Working with other software developers, we are establishing best practices for the integration and use of NavCad’s UV modules with naval architectural software and CFD codes, as well as to provide corresponding guidance, training, and professional development to the UV community.[1] Huang, T.T., et al., “Propeller/Stern/Boun
Forum ROV Completes Trials for Vietnam Navy
of up to three ELSS pods at once to a distressed submarine (DISSUB).The XLX-C is coupled with a Forum Dynacon Launch and Recovery System (LARS) manufactured in the U.S. The Houston team also supplied a VMAX ROV training simulator for the XLX-C as a training aid for the ROV pilots. Forum’s software developers designed a new scenario to instruct pilots on how to latch the ROV with a distressed submarine using a ‘sticky foot’ tool in order to deliver emergency supply pods.Forum has also provided the Vietnam Navy with a VisualSoft, four Channel VisualDVR, system. This is a multichannel
Greensea Opens Second Location
using its OPENSEA platform.Greensea Systems (Richmond, VT) new location, at 10 Cordage Park Circle, Suite 222, in the historic Cordage Commerce Center, once home to the Plymouth Cordage Company, will be the company's first office outside of Vermont and will become home to a growing team of software developers and robotics engineers."We are known for our open-architecture platform, OPENSEA, that is currently in use in more than 900 marine systems," said CEO Ben Kinnaman. "Being on the waterfront, in the heart of a vibrant maritime community, is the perfect place to expand our company
IMO Launches Compendium
Streamlining the many administrative procedures necessary when ships enter or leave port is an important element of International Maritime Organization (IMO)'s work.And now, an important tool used by software developers to create systems for exchanging the relevant data electronically has been made available by the Organization online and free of charge.The IMO Compendium is a reference manual containing data sets and the structure and relationships between them, that will enable the IMO Member States to fulfill a mandatory obligation (in place since April 2019) for the reporting formalities for
Greensea Expands Workforce
, COO, Greensea. “Each person has a wealth of experience in their field and they immediately began making significant contributions to support our rapid growth.” In addition to these three most recent hires, Greensea is looking to hire several experienced robotics engineers and software developers over the next three to six months
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