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MTR100Gardner and Mulholland Teledyne Marine Interconnect Solutions aligns, integrates and standardizes the sales, marketing, business development, tendering and customer relation- ship management processes of Teledyne Im- pulse, Teledyne DGO and Teledyne ODI into a single, high performance, customer-facing organization. The combined footprint of its manufacturing, engineering and customer ser- vice operations includes major facilities in San Diego (CA), Portsmouth (NH), Daytona Beach (FL), and Alton (U.K.). A new 50,000 sq. ft. Technology Center dedicated to the develop- ment of advanced technologies was opened in 2013 in Daytona Beach. Teledyne Impulse delivers electrical and opti- cal interconnect systems for a broad range of harsh environment applications. The organi- zation?s comprehensive product line of dry- mate, wet-mate and underwater-mate products contains metal-shell, rubber-molded electrical,  ber optic, Ethernet and hybrid systems. Teledyne Impulse incorporates these products into custom engineered cable as-semblies using neoprene, polyethylene and polyurethane over- molding technologies. Teledyne DGO specializes in ?severe environment? interconnect equipment and delivers systems which are used to provide power and signals across critical boundaries subjected to extreme pressures and temperatures. Teledyne DGO?s core technology is the glass-to-metal seal. This dry-mate technology not only demonstrates outstanding resistance to extremely high pressures, it is also made of an inorganic material and thus possesses long-term stability and can withstand conditions that quickly degrade and deteriorate other types of sealing materials. Teledyne ODI is a leader in high power subsea interconnect products, and delivers rugged dry-mate and wet-mate connectors designed for electrical,  -ber optic and hybrid applications. Teledyne ODI has achieved tremendous success supporting the development of ocean ob- servatories and sea  oor sensor networks, and it?s wet-mate systems are based on patented oil- lled and pressure-balanced technologies. Altshuler Teledyne Benthos is a 51 year old company focused on an array of marine systems, really deepwater systems so the core competency is putting systems deep into the ocean. In 2008 Teledyne acquired Webb Research, focused on get- ting an autonomous platform. Webb had the Apex  oat, a free  oating autonomous system and the Slocum glider. The focus was on winning a Navy program for gliders, the Littoral Battle Space Gliders, a contract to provide 150 gliders for the Navy to provide oceanography to the  eet which was won in 2009. Gavia in Iceland presented an exciting technology ready to blossom. In Gavia, we ac- quired a propeller driven un- derwater autonomous vehicle; Low logistics, high perfor- mance vehicles with the fo- cus on the survey market, and also the foreign military mar- ket. Each of the three businesses are technology based, and the underlying theme was to ac- celerate the growth of the tech- nology portfolio. We invest heavily in Research and Devel- opment and we are aggressive in looking at how we are going to generate the next-generation technology for ocean observa- tion. In the glider world we in- troduced a modi cation to the Slocum glider that allows us to use it as a propeller driven vehicle, so you can use it in gliding mode or a more classic AUV. Very low speed but very energy ef cient, but it really increases the operational envelope. In the  oat world we are in the very early open water testing of our next generation APEX  oat that will be able to go to 6,000m. What do you consider to be the overriding col- lective group strength? Kikendall The group strength is a combination of the people, the focus provided by our organizational structure and the broad resources of Teledyne. We are fortunate to have many very experienced and capable people in our organiza- tions that have tremendous domain and technical knowledge. We are also fortunate to produce products that, in many cases, are the standards within the industry. With respect to organi- zation, we have organized in a manner that is customer/ap- plication focused. Whether we are talking about sensors, te- lemetry products, underwater vehicles or navigation tools, we are focused on providing the independent solutions that are leading the industry. Collectively, we strive to provide high level systems that incorporate a variety of Teledyne Marine components for those seeking innovative, turn-key solutions; however, we do not want to dictate that our systems will only be offered with Teledyne components. This approach allows our customers to choose the individual components that best meet their overall objective. Teledyne Technologies, our parent company, is a diverse and TELEDYNE RD I NSTRUMENTS ? TSS ? GEOPHYSICAL INSTRUMENTS ? BENTHOS ? WEBB RESEARCH ? GAVIA ? RESON ? ODOM ? BLUEVIEW ? ODI ? IMPULSE ? DGO EBB RESEARCH ? GAVIA ? RESON ? ODOM ? BLUEVIEW ? ODI ? IMPULSE ? DGO Kikendall www.seadiscovery.com Marine Technology Reporter 45MTR #6 (34-49).indd 45MTR #6 (34-49).indd 457/24/2013 9:41:00 AM7/24/2013 9:41:00 AM