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Bluefin Robotics Corporation 237 Putnam Ave., Cambridge MA 02139

Tel: 617 715 7080

Email: [email protected] • www.bluefinrobotics.com

CEO/President: David P. Kelly

COO: Robert Grieve

Marketing Director: Deanna Abraham

Facilities: Bluefin occupies two facilities in the Boston area. The main facility is a 37,000 sq. ft. headquarters on Putnam Avenue in Cambridge, MA which houses three floors of engineering, manufacturing, and corporate administrative func- tions. Our marine operation location is based in East Boston, which provides

Bluefin with year-round ocean access for testing and sea trials.

Testing Capabilities: Four test tanks, machine shop, 58 ft boat, RHIB, 35 ton crane

Number of Employees: 65

Bluefin Robotics is a leader in the development and manufacture of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), derivative systems, and related technology. Since 1997, it has brought innovative and technologically advanced AUV solutions to military, commercial (oil and gas survey, sea floor mapping) and scientific markets worldwide. Bluefin became a wholly-owned subsidiary of

Battelle Memorial Institute in 2005. Technology Profile:

Bluefin's wide range of vehicles includes the cost-effective

Spray glider, the non-tethered Hovering Autonomous

Underwater Vehicle (HAUV) designed for ship hull inspection, and the BF Series of AUVs, available in a number of standard and customized configurations. In addition, its product family includes innovative propul- sion, navigation, and battery systems that is has developed and refined based on years of experience in subsea com- ponent design. Bluefin Robotics' BF Series vehicles are the only commercially available AUVs that boast a complete- ly modular, free-flooded architecture for optimum per- formance at even the greatest depths. All BF Series AUVs feature rapid, on-the-fly swapping of our specially designed pressure-tolerant batteries for safe, fast turn- around at sea - without ever opening a pressure housing.

Bluefin has licenses with MIT, Scripps Institute of

Oceanography, and Monterey Bay Aquarium Research

Institute. These partnerships in combination with our in- house R&D programs, allow us to deliver innovative sub- sea solutions to our customers worldwide.

HAUV

Sidus Solutions Inc.

P.O. Box 60767, San Diego, CA 92116

Tel: +1 619-275-5533

Email: [email protected] www.sidus-solutions.com

President: Leonard Pool

Marketing Director: Partrice Alexander

Engineering Director: Jeff Gardiner

Testing Capabilities: (ie. test tanks, boats)

Electronics & Video test facilities

Number of Employees: 10

Annual Sales (US$): $3.5m

Sidus Solutions, Inc. is an integrat- ed systems provider of robust security and video surveillance systems, serv- ices and equipment for numerous worldwide businesses in the heavy commercial, industrial and oil and gas markets. The company's solutions are fully capable of operating in any industry requiring remote surveil- lance systems, and the company is proud to offer its customers flexibili- ty and a high level of commitment.

Technology Profile: Each system delivered by Sidus is custom built specifically for the individual needs of the customer.

However, its engineering services cover a span beyond its product development and delivery. Its engi- neering staff provides seamless system integration design, installation and commissioning of all remote control, management, monitoring and video surveillance systems.

SeeByte Ltd

Orchard Brae House, 30 Queensferry Road

Edinburgh EH4 2HS, SCOTLAND, UK

Telephone: +44 (0) 131 447 4200 [email protected] www.seebyte.com

SeeByte was founded in 2001 in

Edinburgh, Scotland with the aim of bringing to market technologies designed at the world-class Ocean

Systems Laboratory of Heriot-Watt

University. OSL is consulted by the world's leading operators in the off- shore, military and transportation sectors.

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