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48 MTR January 2007 "We are very happy to have Scott join our team," said Northstar's President and CEO, Dr. Wilson Russell. "Scott's strong background in the defense acquisition process and the management of high technology pro- grams will provide Northstar with a new dimension of experience and expertise."

Geoconsult Orders from

Kongsberg

Geoconsult AS placed an order for multibeam echosounders, including one EM 122 1x2, one SBP 120 6 degree and two EM 710 0.5x1 sys- tems. The first EM 710 was delivered in December 2006, while the rest of the package will be delivered in 2007.

The equipment will be installed in a gondola on Geoconsult's newly acquired vessel, GEOGRAF II.

Geoconsult was established in 1979 by Hans M. Gravdal, and today has access to 17 vessels through the sister company Geoshipping AS.

IXSEA Wins Belgian Navy

Contract

IXSEA signed a contract with the

Belgian Navy to provide an integrat- ed survey solution for its mine war- fare data center (MWDC). The pur- pose of the MWDC is to collect hydrographic data and to produce electronic and paper charts with addi- tional military layers. IXSEA's inte- grated survey solution (ISS) will be used onboard mine hunters for route survey, homeland security and REA (rapid environment assessment). The

ISS includes state of the art imagery sensors: COTS IXSEA's Synthetic

Aperture Sonar (SHADOWS),

IXSEA's new Gradiometer,

Kongsberg's Multibeam

Echosounder, and IXSEA's GAPS, a positioning and motion sensor. A comprehensive PC based exploitation software solution is included, allow- ing survey management and joint dis- play and interpretation of all the data collected. This solution integrates the

QPS and CARIS software to meet the customer specific requirements.

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Hydroid Welcomes Wilson, Loescher

Hydroid added two employees to its growing staff. Brian Wilson has joined Hydroid as its

Customer Service Manager and Craig Loescher has joined the company as an

Electronics Technician.

Wilson (left) has been involved in the manufac- turing of oceanographic systems for the past 20 years.

Wilson has been involved in customer service activities for most of his career. He was most recently employed at Falmouth Scientific/Acoustikos. He has previously held posi- tions in customer service at Teledyne/Benthos and Datasonics. Wilson holds electrical engineering degrees from Southeastern Massachusetts University and the Berkshire Community College. Loescher (right) also recently joined

Hydroid. Loescher has been involved in trouble shooting complex electrical equipment for over 20 years. Prior to joining Hydroid Loescher held posi- tions in various companies, including Tekelec, General Dynamics and Sync

Research. He holds a degree in Electro-Mechanical Engineering from Bristol

Community College.

For more information visit www.hydroidinc.com

Brian Wilson (left) and Craig Loescher.

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