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Pocasset, MA www.hydroid.com

President & Chairman: Duane Fotheringham

Hydroid, a Kongsberg-company located in Pocasset, MA, is cise, the Advanced Naval Technology Exercise, or ANTX, for a ubiquitous name in subsea defense circles with nearly 70% the U.S. Navy and it demonstrated the launch of an unmanned of its business coming from the sector, and it is also one of aerial vehicle from a submerged AUV, highlighting a cross- the longest-tenured AUV makers in the world. Duane Foth- domain solution. As with any manufacturer in this space con- eringham is at the helm as the president and chairman of the tinual investment is the norm, and Hydroid is a leader in this board, taking over the top spot from Chris von Alt when the regard. And the demand today is for not only a dependable ubiquitous founder of Hydroid retired in 2013. vehicle, but one with open architecture, opening the Hydroid

While the company is one of the longest tenured players in solution to outside suppliers, leveraging best available tech- the AUV market, Hydroid does not rest on its laurels. In fact, nologies no matter where they emanate. “Our customers are while Hydroid is not even 20-years-old yet, it is a pioneer in asking for open architecture systems, so all of our new genera- the AUV ? eld and one of the mature players. And even though tion of vehicles (and really, existing vehicles did to a point) it is owned by maritime and subsea power-house Kongsberg, have an open architecture platform,” said Fotheringham. “The it maintains its innovative roots, and in fact has made “a sig- vast majority of them come with ROS – or Robotic Operating ni? cant investment in a small, start-up ‘skunkworks’ company System –so there are a lot of things that already exist in the that does autonomy work for automotive and other industries,” whole infrastructure. It allows third parties – whether it’s our said Fotheringham in an interview earlier this year with MTR. cus-tomers or other vendors – to develop (software or hard-

Navy business is a cornerstone for Hydroid, and according ware) applications for our vehicles. We want to build a very to Fotheringham “Ttere is a very clear push – in the military, solid, reliable platform that performs its core mission, and we and more speci? cally in the U.S. Navy – for the adoption of also integrate a lot of sen-sors, but we also recognize we’re not unmanned systems. Last summer Hydroid was part of an exer- the only people with good ideas.” www.marinetechnologynews.com

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