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ERAPSCO Wins $10M Deal

ERAPSCO, Columbia City, Ind., is being awarded a $10,125,000 firm-fixed-price contract for AN/SSQ-101 sonobuoys and associated data. The AN/SSQ-101 sonobuoys are dropped from various air- borne platforms and used for search and detection of submerged submarines. Work will be performed in Columbia City, Ind. (50%) and DeLeon Springs, Fla. (50%), and is expected to be completed by April 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The

Naval Surface Warfare Center,

Crane Division, Crane, Ind., is the contracting activity.

QinetiQ System to

Norway

QinetiQ signed a contract worth more than $5 million for the supply and ongoing support of its LOKI torpedo countermea- sures to the Royal Norwegian

Navy. These reportedly will form part of the Norwegian Navy's integrated torpedo defense suite on its new Fridtjof Nansen-class frigates. A spokesman explained that LOKI is a maintenance-free, expendable torpedo, countermea- sure system designed as a defense against acoustic-homing torpe- does.

Sonardyne Dataloggers

FMC Kongsberg Subsea (Kongsberg, Norway) placed an order with Sonardyne for four acoustic data logger systems for use on the Greater Plutonio field offshore Angola. A spokesman said that advances in acoustic technology from Sonardyne are now enabling the use of down- hole instrumentation over pro- longed periods with reservoir data being recovered quickly and effi- ciently via wideband acoustic telemetry. The equipment will be deployed on subsea wellheads in around 1,500 meters water depth and will store and relay data from downhole pressure and temperature gauges. The data loggers feature

Sonardyne's new Fusion wideband technol- ogy, which is designed to allow large vol- umes of data to be rapidly retrieved at the surface via acoustic telemetry. Sonardyne acoustic data logger systems are depth rated to 3,000 m and can be deployed, connected to downhole instrumentation, and then later recovered entirely by ROV. www.seadiscovery.com Marine Technology Reporter 17 news

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