Teledyne Instruments, a Teledyne Technologies subsidiary, has received a potential 22.2M contract to provide the Naval Undersea Warfare Center with autonomous underwater vehicles.
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The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement intends to award a contract to Phoenix International Holdings for further development of an autonomous underwater vehicle ignition system to support the activities of the bureau’s oil spill preparedness division.
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An L3 Technologies subsidiary has received a contract to provide the U.S. Marine Corps with an unmanned underwater vehicle. L3 OceanServer said Thursday it will supply its Iver3 UUV to help Marine Corps Systems Command carry out evaluation and testing operations. Iver3 is a commercial-off-the-shelf autonomous underwater system that has a package …
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A Kraken Robotics subsidiary has produced a synthetic aperture sonar technology designed to map the ocean floor in support of U.S. Navy‘s autonomous minehunting operations. The service branch integrated and tested Kraken Robotics Systems-made SAS onboard the Naval Warfare Center‘s REMUS 600 autonomous underwater vehicle, the company said Jan. 11. The sonar is built to collect target …
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Kraken Robotics has integrated and tested a new real-time synthetic aperture sonar system aboard a U.S. Navy Remus 600 autonomous underwater vehicle in Rhode Island. The company said Thursday its Aquapix miniature SAS technology features capacities to support minehunting operations at ranges up to 10 times more than traditional side …
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The U.S. Navy plans to award Hydronalix a potential five-year blanket ordering agreement develop a mobile gateway buoy that can support an unmanned underwater vehicle. A FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday says the company will build a pair of MGB prototypes to the Naval Air Systems Command under the third phase of the service branch’s Small Business …
Read More » Boeing and Lockheed Martin have begun to design an extra large unmanned undersea vehicle under two separate contracts awarded by the U.S. Navy, USNI News reported Tuesday. The Navy awarded a $42.3 million contract to Boeing and a $43.2 million contract to Lockheed in September under the initial phase of the Orca XLUUV acquisition …
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General Dynamics’ mission systems business has said customers in the defense, science and commercial sectors can place an order for an autonomous underwater vehicle through the company’s website. Bluefin SandShark is part of General Dynamics’ Bluefin Robotics suite of underwater drones and is designed to dive down to up to …
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Lockheed Martin demonstrated its two unmanned vehicles at the U.S. Navy’s Annual Navy Technology Exercise held in August at Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. Both Vector Hawk and Marlin vehicles worked together with Submaran to perform situational awareness functions through transmission of operational status data to the ground control station …
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General Dynamics has demonstrated a hovering-autonomous underwater vehicle the company’s Bluefin Robotics subsidiary developed to detect threats to a ship’s hull and structure. General Dynamics said Thursday it showcased the H-AUV platform that incorporates acoustic sonar and high-resolution imaging technology during the OCEANS 2016 exposition in Monterey, California. The vehicle is designed to determine a hull’s condition, …
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General Dynamics’ mission systems business unit demonstrated its autonomous underwater vehicles at the U.S. Navy’s Annual Naval Technology Exercises held in August at the service branch’s Narragansett Bay test facility in Newport, Rhode Island. The company said Friday a Bluefin-21 AUV deployed two Bluefin SandShark micro-AUVs to perform target imagery transmission and …
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Sweden’s defense material administration has placed an order to Saab for anti-submarine warfare training and the AUV62-AT autonomous underwater vehicle to support the Swedish armed forces’ underwater operations. Saab will provide the AUV62-AT with ASW training configuration and additional support and maintenance to the client from 2016 to 2019, the company said Wednesday. …
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A fresh Research and Markets report has projected the global autonomous underwater vehicles market’s growth to rise at 13.42 percent annually over the next five years, reaching $343.4 million by 2020. Research and Markets stated that the report expects the commercial, scientific and defense sectors to drive demand for AUVs, …
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