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ICAN

Suite 201 1118 Topsail Road, Mount Pearl

Newfoundland Canada A1N 5E7

Tel +7097540400; Fax: +7097540419

E-mail: [email protected] www.icanmarine.com

CEO: Neil Chaulk

ICAN was established in November 1996 by Neil Chaulk. Neil, a profes- sional engineer, had been working with the Canadian Coast Guard when he conceived of a company that could provide Differential GPS (DGPS) consulting to other coun- tries.

Today, ICAN employs 35 in three

Canadian provinces and two U.S. states and has a minority shareholder in The Netherlands.

IXSEA 500 W. Cummings Park

Suite 100 Woburn, MA 01801

Tel: +49 69 247 06953; Fax: +49 69 247 06953

Email: [email protected]

URL : www.ixsea.com/en

IXSEA offers solutions in the scien- tific, offshore and defense markets for: navigation and positioning, imagery, moorings, and survey.

IXSEA has 3 industrial sites in France as well as a global sales network in

Europe, America and Asia. It cur- rently employs 180 people, with more than 50 PHD graduates and engineers concentrating solely on research and development. IXSEA offers a broad and unique range of complementary systems and solu- tions built on key technologies like,

FOG (Fiber Optic Gyroscope) tech- nology, Underwater acoustics, and

Seismic, sonar and magnetometer imagery solutions.

Technology Profile: IXSEA works in five main market segments:

Navigation and positioning, Imagery,

Moorings, Survey, and Space. Its

Fiber Optic Gyroscope (FOG) tech- nology is at the heart of its

Gyrocompasses and Inertial

Navigation Systems. IXSEA is at the center of the data fusion revolution: by merging Inertial Navigation

Systems (INS) and Global Acoustic

Positioning Systems (GAPS, IXSEA's

USBL), IXSEA strives to provide accurate and robust subsea position- ing, where all data is fused into opti- mal solutions.

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