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Sonardyne for AUV

Dive Technologies has chosen a com- plete suite of Sonardyne technologies for navigation, tracking and control of its large displacement DIVE-LD autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) programme. The DIVE-LD AUV is be- ing developed to meet a wide range of long-endurance mission requirements, across the commercial, research and defence sectors. For the full story visit: bit.ly/2Y2ybM3

HII Acquires Autonomy Business

Huntington Ingalls Industries acquired

Sonardyne for Dive Technologies’s AUV.

the autonomy business of Spatial In- tegrated Systems Inc. (SIS) which has proven unmanned surface vessel (USV) solutions. SIS’s unmanned systems solutions — including multi-vehicle collaborative autonomy, sensor fusion and perception — have been ? elded for more than 6,000 hours on 23 vessel types.

Williams Succeeds Cobis @ Klein

MIND Technology, Inc. announced that

Michael A. Williams has been named

HII Acquires Autonomy Business.

General Manager at its Klein unit located in Salem, NH, following the retirement of Frank Cobis.

USN SURTASS Program Support

When the U.S. Navy needed to ensure the recovery of the AN/UQQ-2 Surveil- lance Towed Sensor System (SUR-

TASS) in case of loss at sea, it reached out to RJE International. The SUR-

TASS system is a passive surveillance system that consists of long acoustic arrays towed by the T-AGOS class naval ships. In support the Navy’s ASW mission, SURTASS provides long-range detection, tracking and classi? cation of both diesel and nuclear powered submarines. To ensure the recovery of these arrays, the U.S. Navy has selected

RJE International’s ATT-400 underwater acoustic transponder for subsea reloca-

RJE/USN HII Sonardyne tion in case of loss.

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