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“Quotable” “ Roger Revelle was a visionary who – back in 1946 – envisioned the

Of? ce of Naval Research as a world leader in sponsoring oceanographic basic research, and later foresaw the need for a new University of California in La Jolla that eventually grew around Scripps,” said Tom Drake, director of the Ocean Battlespace and

Expeditionary Access department at “He the Of? ce of Naval Research. also suggested the likely trajectory of the Earth’s climate, which we 32 are now observing.”

Photo courtesy UC San Diego Library “One of the limitations we observed in existing USVs was that you could only really deploy one type of sensor or go out for a week at a time ... In building Armada, we really tried to address that. The biggest change is scale. A 21 m vessel can carry multiple

Q sensors, the right type of ROVs and the right type of sensors and winches that customers need.”

Dan Hook,

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