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marine technology incubator that offers companies a place to start-up operations in the heart of the marine technology corridor. BIRNS chose the south east coast of Massachusetts due to its central location and ability to serve the growing concentration of marine technology companies in New

England. According to a recent study by the University of Massachusetts there are nearly 500 marine technolo- gy companies located in MA, RI, CT,

NH and Maine with some 60 percent of these located within about an hour drive from New Bedford.

For more information visit www.birnsaquamate.com

Applied Signal Purchases

REMUS 600

Hydroid received a contract for a

REMUS 600 system from Applied

Signal Technology, Inc (AST), a provider of end-to-end systems for high resolution, wide-area seafloor mapping. The contract marks

Hydroid's first contract for the

REMUS 600 since expanding its licensing agreement with the Woods

Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to include the larger

REMUS vehicles developed at

WHOI's Oceanographic Systems

Laboratory (OSL). Dan Sternlicht,

AST's Acoustic Systems Department

Manager, said "Current autonomous undersea vehicle (AUV) CONOPS store synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) data on vehicle hard drives, with beam forming and analysis occurring post mission. Integration of AST's low-power SAS processor directly onto the REMUS 600 motivates a fundamental rethinking of AUV operations. On-vehicle interpretation of SAS imagery will enable transmis- sion of sortie reports while the AUV is still in the field, significantly speed- ing up data analysis and providing opportunities to affect missions in progress. AST is pleased to be work- ing with Hydroid in the first demon- stration of this transformational capa- bility."

Hydroid Ships 100th

REMUS 100 System

Hydroid LLC announced that with the recent shipment of a system to the

New Zealand Navy they have shipped their 100th REMUS Autonomous

Underwater Vehicle system since the founding of the company five years ago. The REMUS system delivered in

October is configured with a sensor suite specifically suited to meet the

Navy's requirements for mine coun- termeasure activities (MCM).

Representatives from the New

Zealand Navy spent a week at

Hydroid in Pocasset, Mass., partici- pating in factory acceptance testing prior to shipment.

For more information visit www.hydroidinc.com

Aker Kvaerner Awarded

PPL Shipyard Contract

Aker Kvaerner won a contract with

PPL Shipyard Pte. Ltd. in Singapore for delivery of drilling equipment for a Baker Marine Pacific Class 375 jack-up drilling rig. The total contract value for Aker Kvaerner is approxi- mately $15m The rig is scheduled for delivery at the end of 2008. people & companies

Hundreds of Acoustic Modems

Shipped by LinkQuest

LinkQuest Inc. has shipped hundreds of its underwater acoustic modems for applications worldwide in recent months, extending the market of its best-selling acoustic modem, which is based on Broadband Acoustic Spread

Spectrum (BASS) technology. LinkQuest has shipped a large number of underwater acoustic modems for long-term fishery and environmental mon- itoring projects, forming some of the largest undersea acoustic communica- tion networks in history. Long-range UWM3000 modems were installed for

India's large Tsunami monitoring network, sending critical sensor data from the deep sea to surface buoys in real-time. Fugro, Seatronics, Ashtead and other commercial companies have purchased a large number of UWM2000,

UWM3000 and UWM4000 modems for offshore oil filed applications.

Numerous government organizations, large research institutions and univer- sities, including USGS, NOAA, UK's Southampton Oceanography Center,

Korea's KORDI, Germany's Baltic Sea Research Institute and National

University of Singapore, have also placed orders for various models of under- water acoustic modems.

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