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Management, Operational

Excellence, and Innovation.

Both facilities are ISO 9001:2000 certified, and support naval/marine product such as antenna masts, torpe- do trainers, tow cable/winch systems, shock resistant electronic enclosures, etc.

It also produces robotic, medical device, and semi-conductor systems.

Its strength begins and lies heavily with an advanced Program

Management infrastructure including manufacturing engineering & sup- ply-chain management.

The innovative manufacturing cen- ters of excellence include: precision machining, welding, fabrication, fin- ishing, paint, assembly, soldering, and testing.

HTI Hydroacoustic Technology, Inc.

Seattle WA

Tel: (206) 633-3383

Email: support@ HTIsonar.com www.HTIsonar.com

President: John Ehrenberg

Vice President: Bruce Ransom

Marketing Director: Caroline Mercado

General Manager: Pat Nealson

Employees: 40

Track the behavior of fish and other aquatic life in high-resolution 3D with HTI's acoustic tag systems. 20 MTR July/August 2010

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IXSEA

Woburn, MA

Tel: 781-937-8800

Email: info@ ixsea.com www.ixsea.com

Formed in 2000, IXSEA designs, manufactures and markets inertial navigation and acoustic positioning systems for underwater vehicles, along with a complete range of seabed mapping solutions for the geoscientific, hydrographic, offshore and defense markets.

IXSEA has a staff of 200+ divided between three manufacturing sites in France and five sales subsidiaries around the world. Registering average annual growth of 20%, in 2009

IXSEA generated sales of $45.1m. Sustained growth in IXSEA’s sales revenue has been made possible by the introduction of innovative products into dynamic and competitive markets every year since its creation. IXSEA invests 15% of its annual sales revenue in

Research & Development and 30% of its workforce are engineers. IXSEA’s systems are used for seabed exploration and exploitation. Customers include major international players in the oceanographic (IFREMER, WHOI), hydrographic (Spanish Hydrographic Institute), offshore oil (Total, Technip, De Beers) and defense (British Royal Navy, US Coastguards, etc.) markets. IXSEA designs, manufactures and markets navigation and positioning systems based on its state of the art Fibre Optic

Gyroscope technology, along with a complete range of seabed mapping solutions and acoustic release products. • Navigation and Positioning: Navigation units for surface vessels and underwater vehicles: ROVINS is a com- bined survey grade gyrocompass and full featured Inertial Navigation System (INS) for depths to 3,000 m. Designed specifically for offshore survey and construction activities, ROVINS builds upon the company’s proven OCTANS gyrocompass and PHINS INS architecture (including upgrade capability from OCTANS to PHINS) and offers inter- faces to standard surface and subsea positioning and aiding sensors. • RAMSES is an intelligent acoustic synthetic baseline positioning system. Combined with an IXSEA Inertial

Navigation System (tight coupled with PHINS for instance) to deliver its full potential, the RAMSES/INS solution provides the highest grade position accuracy and redundancy. • GAPS, Global Acoustic Positioning System, fuses inertial and acoustic technologies that will determine the posi- tion of any underwater beacon to 0.2% of range. • Seabed Mapping Solutions: IXSEA’s unique range of systems and sensors includes: DELPH, a powerful suite of real-time data acquisition and fully integrated processing and interpretation tools; SHADOWS, the fourth generation side scan sonar, providing ‘more pixels per hour’; ECHOES, the only complete range of fully tunable seismic sub-bot- tom profilers. • Acoustic Releases: A complete range from shallow to full ocean depth releases are offered with capabilities rang- ing from 10’s to 1000’s of pounds of force.