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MTR 100 exploiting Liquid Crystal Polymers (LCPs) which, according to the com- pany, can exhibit a specific tensile strength ten times that of steel cable.

Its 30 mil LCP jacketed SMF28 cable has a reported breaking strength of 55 lbs. In addition to high strength,

STFOC is also designed to provide mechanical and thermal stability and survive exposure to organic solvents, acids, and fuel oils.

Magic Instinct Software

Nantes France

Tel: +33 (0)2 40 18 09 71

Email: peio@ justmagic.com http://wwwjustmagic.com

CEO: Peio Elissalde

Magic Instinct Software develops marine software, including electronic chart systems, geo-referenced under- water movies, and web-mapping.

MIS has developed the Marine

GeoGarage, the first nautical charts web portal built on Cloud computing technology.

Mad Rock Marine Solutions Inc.

St. John's NL, Canada

Tel: (709) 757-2049

Email: info@ madrock.ca www.madrock.ca

President/CEO/CTO: Dean Pelley

VP of Finance: Steve Lawlor

Sales Manager: Lacee Abbott

Engineering Director: Jason Dawe

Facility: Institute for Ocean Technology - National Research

Council

Testing Capabilities: Offshore engineering basin, towing tank, ice tank, cold rooms, cultivation tunnel, towing tank, marine dynamic test facility, planar motion mechanism, yacht dynamome- ter. Training facilities worldwide through strategic partnerships.

Employees: 17

Annual Sales: $3.7m

Mad Rock Marine Solutions Inc. is a privately-held Canadian company that was incorporated in July 2002 to prevent fatal lifeboat accidents due to premature release of first generation hook systems. Using expertise and

R&D partnerships, the Mad Rock

MSI (Materials Systems Inc.)

Littleton, MA

Tel: (978) 486-0404

Email: info@ msitransducers.com • www.msitransducers.com

President: Dr. Leslie Bowen • VP: Gerald Schmidt

Facility: MSI's facility houses R&D, Manufacturing, and Sales and Marketing. Manufacturing includes equipment for making and injection molding piezoelectric ceramic, piezocomposite fabrication, transducer assembly and encapsulation, and in-water tank testing.

Square Footage: 20,000 sq. ft.

Testing Capabilities: In water acoustic testing, pressure, temperature, impedance

Employees: 35

MSI (Materials Systems Inc.) designs and manufactures custom sonar transducers and arrays for harbor defense, side-scan, obstacle avoidance, sub-bottom profiling, swath bathymetry, mine hunting, swimmer detection, and acoustic communications. MSI per- sonnel participated in the earliest work on piezocomposites in the late 1970's, when the performance benefits were first demonstrated under ONR and DARPA funding. Since then, MSI has developed injection molding techniques for mass-producing these transducers. MSI's development of injection molding for manufacturing piezocomposite opened the way for application of this acoustic transducer material in sonar and ultrasound. During the past 18 years,

MSI has provided high performance piezocomposite transducers for the U.S. Navy and a variety of other defense and commercial clients. MSI is now in full scale production for a variety of commercial and industrial customers. MSI is

ISO 9001 certified. MSI’s piezocomposite arrays are designed to deliver broad bandwidth, allowing multiple beams to operate in distinct frequency bands. This should allow greater resolution and enhance broad spectrum (chirp) oper- ating techniques. MSI’s piezocomposite arrays can also be curved and shaded to achieve a specific beampattern or to achieve a hydrodynamic profile when mounting the arrays to the curved hull of a vessel or AUV. Resonant transmit designs are in production at frequencies ranging 20 kHz to 1MHz. MSI's piezocomposite arrays have been shown to meet full explosive shock requirements for Navy operations in both the US and UK, and can be configured for full ocean depth performance. MSI’s piezocomposite array technology is providing major performance and cost benefits to many of the latest commercial and defense imaging systems, including Teledyne Benthos’ C3D multibeam sides- can sonar and the US Navy’s Archerfish vehicle for the Airborne Mine Neutralization System (AMNS).