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ROUNDTABLE Subsea Defense

Rodocker, Stratgic Robotics to also provide training, service, and erations and engagement with the warf-

SRS was founded specifcally to be a support directly to trainers, operators, ighter, L3Harris saw a gap in capabil- defense company and provide a solu- and technicians. It is through this out- ity between small and medium UUVs. tion to EOD/MCM operators globally. reach that we receive the most valuable Small diameter UUVs did not have the

Beyond defense SRS only really works feedback that informs our product devel- endurance, modularity, safe battery with public safety/law enforcement. opment. chemistry, and mission performance

Virtually all our R&D goes into improv- Our company’s R&D/Product Devel- the operators needed, but medium class ing the capability of FUSION for de- opment for OPENSEA as well as for the UUVs were diffcult to handle with a fense, albeit the system is a commercial products within our programs is guided large logistics footprint. After years of product that could beneft many clients by direct input from Program Offces prototyping, L3Harris released the Iver4 outside defense. More often we are see- as well as the Fleet. Greensea invests 900 to meet the requirements of the oper- ing defense clients globally increase substantially to provide solutions to ators. It delivered a small diameter UUV their use of UUVs as they try to remove the military that address immediate re- (<10inches) that matched the capability the man from the minefeld. There is quirements and that can evolve as those of the medium vehicles (10-21 inches) only going to be more use by robots in requirements evolve. Greensea also without the logistics and battery safety the future. engages in funding opportunities that challenges that kept these vehicles from advance our products within our core being used for critical EOD, Submarine,

Kenney, L3Harris program support focus. and Naval Special Warfare missions.

Growth of unmanned in the defense sector, whether it be international or do- Gibson, VideoRay mestic, is of critical importance to the The Defense sector has driven several

What are the specifc tech at- growth of our business. There are fve aspects of VideoRay’s new Mission Spe- tributes of your system(s) that business units in the Unmanned Mari- cialist technology. Our engineering team you have found to be particu- time Systems division and each were maintains a close relationship with our larly attractive to the defense acquired to bring a unique and differ- military customers, through programs sector (please be specifc)?

entiating capability to compete in this like our Cooperative Research and De- space. It is the growing demand for velopment Agreement. This ensures Kinnaman, Greensea unmanned systems to meet mission re- rapid progression of projects through Both our platform and the technology quirements for the U.S. Navy, whether R&D, feld trials, revisions, then produc- we build on that platform have signif- under the surface or above, that is fuel tion. Portability requirements have been cant beneft to the defense sector.

for our business. designed into the Defender product. It is We build all of our products and solu- critical that the Defender be able to be tions on an open architecture software transported anywhere in the world for platform called OPENSEA. This is a rapid deployment while being operated commercially controlled open architec-

Discuss how defense sector and deployed by one man. Operational ture software platform that enables the requirements have helped to availability requirements are critical for development of specialized capabilities drive your company’s R&D/ the Defense sector. Modular Mission leveraging existing robust solutions. Product development over the

Specialist technology allows operators OPENSEA provides the defense sector past few years.

to quickly swap modules in the feld with a scalable, fexible, and severable

Kinnaman, Greensea minimizing downtime, while maximiz- platform that can respond rapidly to

In addition to providing OPENSEA ing operational availability. Ease of use evolving requirements while maintain- as a development platform to numerous is another requirement that is important ing the maturity of proven systems. We defense contractors throughout the in- in the Defense sector. Auto fight con- are using OPENSEA in several continu- dustry, Greensea directly supports three trols delivered in Greensea’s OPENSEA ous integration and development pro- primary defense applications: mari- platform have engineered the talent out grams where we are felding new capa- time EOD, SOF combat diver mobility, of piloting, making it much easier to bilities very rapidly, almost every two and ship hull robotics. The solutions perform operations. This also reduces weeks, in mature software products to we provide in these three segments are training burden and skill fade. meet feet requirements. This is a para- based on years of direct feedback from digm shift in defense technology devel- technicians and operators throughout the Kenney, L3Harris opment but essential for the modern feet defense industry, both domestic and in- L3Harris had felded more than 300 to respond to changing threats. An open ternational. We have carefully designed Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (UUV) architecture platform such as OPENSEA our business strategy within these seg- before the Iver4 product was introduced. also allows the use of existing technol- ments to not only provide products, but Through many years of successful op- ogy investments and provides a path for May 2020 50

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