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www.seadiscovery.com Marine Technology Reporter 37Kongsberg UnderwaterTechnology, Inc.19210 33rd Avenue West, Suite A, Lynnwood, WA 98036-4749 Tel: (425) 712-1107; Fax: (425) 712-1197 Email: chris.hancock@ kongsberg.com Website: www.km.kongsberg.com President/CEO: Tom Healy Testing capabilities: Facilities for service, repair and test of marine electronics, including a 1,000 cu. ft. tank for test- ing sonar transducer equipment.Number of employees:28 *Kongsberg Underwater Technologies, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kongsberg Maritime. Kongsberg Underwater Technology, supplies underwater acoustic systems, autonomous underwater vehicles and subsea instrumentation to the ocean research, commercial fishing, naval defense and offshore energy indus- tries. The company was established in 1990 as the United States center for sales, engineering and customer sup-port for Kongsberg Maritimes subsea product line. Kongsberg Underwater Technologies, Inc. maintains a staff of mechanical, electrical, software and field support engineers. Work per- formed includes custom software development, custom mechanical design, custom manufacturing, inte-grated system delivery, project/prog- ram management and complete logis-tic support. Particular emphasis is placed on custom software design for underwater acoustic systems and AUV systems plus design, integration and testing of acoustic geophysicalsurvey systems for naval, research and commercial survey vessels. Technology Profile ?Multibeam echo sounders capable of operating in depths from 1 meter to full ocean depth?Autonomous underwater vehicles ?Synthetic aperture sonar ?Sub-bottom profilers ?Scientific echo sounders ?Fisheries sonar systems ?Side scan sonar ?Acoustic positioning systems ?Underwater transponders ?Scanning sonar ?Acoustic communications systems ?Underwater and harsh environ- ment camera and lighting systemsCARISFredericton NB Canada Tel: (506) 458-8533 Email: info@ caris.com www.caris.com CEO: Dr. Masry Sales Manager: Andrew Hoggarth Marketing Supervisor: Alex Palmer Employees: 170CARIS develops geospatial software for the hydrographic and marine industries. Developed in cooperation with hydrographic clients and univer- sities worldwide, CARIS software is designed to cater specifically for themarine GIS community, and is built on decades of hydrographic experi- ence. CARIS is a privately held com- pany with more than 170 engineer- ing, IT and business professionals employed in its HQ in Fredericton, Canada as well as in CARIS offices in the Netherlands, Australia, the UK and the U.S. Technology Profile: The CARIS Ping-to-Chart software solu- tion is designed to deliver hydro- graphic information from the echo- sounder ping to the production and distribution of the chart. The product is designed to manage bathymetricdata sets containing billions of sound-ings, to support the development of multiple chart types from a single source, and to be able to distribute and interrogate high-density bathym- etry over the internet. CARIS offers training sessions, consulting andtechnical support services, as well as an courses to ensure clients take advantage of the softwares capabili- ties. Users can also gain access to technical experts on-line, multilin- gual telephone support and email. Dr. Masry, CEO, CARIS