Eni, Fincantieri to Advance Underwater Monitoring Technologies
and their operational efficiency, while promoting their industrialization and commercialization across broader national and international markets. In addition, the agreement strengthens Fincantieri Group’s position in the underwater domain, while further consolidating the role of the Underwater Technology Hub. The Hub serves as the Group’s coordinating center for competencies and technologies across civil, defense, and dual-use systems, as well as a strategic enabler for the development of advanced technologies for the security, monitoring, and protection of critical subsea infrastructure
KONGSBERG, DRASS Partner for Underwater Solutions
A partnership between KONGSBERG and DRASS will support the exchange of technologies, systems, payloads, and operational architectures, combining the companies’ complementary industrial strengths, technical expertise, and operational experience to develop advanced underwater solutions.“Our goal is to develop highly capable, scalable, and interoperable underwater systems that meet changing operational and defense needs. This includes unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), maritime intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) solutions, and manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T),” says
Yanmar, Sony Form Joint Venture for Underwater Sensing Technology
Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd. and Sony Group Corporation have established a joint venture, YANMAR BLUE TECH Co., Ltd., to advance the development and real-world implementation of underwater sensing technology. The new company, 90% owned by Yanmar Holdings, was established September 8 and has commenced operations as of October 1, 2025.The joint venture combines the two companies’ expertise to create new technologies and solutions that address marine sustainability issues such as ecosystem conservation and workforce shortages in underwater infrastructure inspections. Its first initiative is a research
The New WASSP W3P
WASSP released the W3 integrated wireless unit for real-time tender mapping within a portable bracket mounted unit.WASSP W3P is designed to provide 3D real-time seafloor mapping with wireless transmission to a mothership. The integrated solution, provides transducer, processor, transmitter, position sensors, wifi and bracket mounted pole in a fully contained product. With a simple bracket mounted attachment, the W3P only requires a power connection to allow real-time 3D bathymetry mapping of the sea floor from a tender which can be transmitted back in real-time to a mothership at distances up to 2 Nm.
Olson joins Inspire Environmental
Inspire Environmental hired Scott Olson as Senior Field and Innovation Manager to enhance and expand the company’s underwater engineering capabilities. Bringing more than three decades of experience in project management, systems engineering, and field operations, as well as a lifelong passion for marine exploration, Olson will play a lead role in cementing Inspire’s place asa leading provider of seafloor habitat monitoring for the emerging offshore energy industry.Now, adding Olson’s experience in underwater robotics and connections to developers, Inspire plans to augment its
Popoto Modem announces V2.7 for Underwater Acoustic Modem
Popoto Modem announces Version 2.7 of its acoustic modem, designed to be a low cost, small scale, JANUS compliant underwater communications and control operations. The upgraded version offers expanded features and improved ease of deployment in both OEM and fully enclosed configurations.“We remain committed to providing affordable and flexible solutions to ocean engineers, scientists, equipment designers and anyone interested advancing the underwater internet of things,” says John DellaMorte, CTO of Popoto Modem. With that in mind, the company improved the user interface, adding online
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