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are far from shore and power intensive bandwidth at lower cost in a broader situation where you could barely get an – that still demand a combination of geographic area.” email out to streaming video and real- crewed ships and autonomous systems. “We did a demonstration with Roger time sending undecimated data sets, big “The utility of unmanned systems is that Revelle on sea trials, a test shot with a data sets back to shore to be analyzed in you can achieve a persistence at sea that’s SATCOMs provider (where we) bumped near real time and returned to the ship. not possible with presence,” said Bruce up the internet connection on the ship to We’ve demonstrated that it can work, and

Appelgate. be equivalent to about what I experience it really is going to be a game changer “Unmanned systems that we’re deploy- at home. for how U.S. scienti? c community does ing extend the ability of us to do our sens- All of the sudden we went from a work at sea in the short term.” ing at sea. It makes ships more useful.” “Maybe in 50 years it will be differ- ent, but things like going to the southern ocean and doing CTE pro? les, and the kind of hydrography that the big ships do routinely, you just can’t do it (with fully autonomous systems alone); you need too much power. Autonomy ex- tends the utility of the service vessels.

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“Something that has totally been fast tracked in the last nine months is our ability to use SATCOMs; we have realized the potential of SATCOMs in the academic research ? eet in a way that we knew was possible, but there really hadn’t been the pressure to do it. In the midlife re? t of Roger Revelle, Appelgate said “we completely rethought how we were going to do our cyber infrastructure on the ship.” “What we did with Roger Revelle is we reimagined and reengineered how that infrastructure could be con? gured in order that we could make the most advantage of existing SATCOMs, and anticipating things like these low earth orbit systems that would be coming out soon that will allow even higher

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