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Ottawa, Canada – www.rbr-global.com

RBR customers are actively using Generation³ products from the ocean abyss to the polar ice caps to make great discoveries. RBR has expanded product offerings to sen- sors, loggers, systems and OEM components. The past year has been busy with new engineering, sensor design, and ocean deployments in collaboration with global commercial partners to enable innovations in Argo ? oats and autonomous vehicles such as AUVs and gliders.

RBR is always striving for innovation and has expanded its instrument product line to include the RBRquartz³

BPR | zero, a special version of the RBRquartz³ BPR (bot-

QinetiQ Inc. tom pressure recorder) implementing an internal barom-

Waltham, Massachusetts – www.qinetiq-na.com eter and switching valve. The novel AzeroA technique is used to provide in-situ reference measurements to correct for long term drift in the Paroscienti? c Digiquartz® pres- sure gauge. The RBRquartz³ BPR is intended for deep-

QinetiQ Inc. is a leading defense and security com- water, long-term deployments where high stability and pany in the US providing mission-led innovation at resolution of absolute pressure measurements are critical. pace. QinetiQ Inc. is part of QinetiQ (QQ.L)—a lead-

Combined with the RBRfermata external battery canis- ing integrated global defense and security company. ter, the RBRquartz³ BPR|zero can sample continuously at

QinetiQ employs over 6,000 people globally, with 750 1Hz for 600 days or every 10s for more than eight years. based in the U.S.

RBR makes high-precision instruments used for mea-

A part of its maritime robotics offerings is SEAScout, suring the blue planet. Designed with the user experience an unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) portfolio consist- and ? exibility in mind, RBR’s instruments measure up to ing of a series of modular and expandable hand portable ten parameters. Communication is available with USB-C vehicles and provide to the user an unrivaled capability as the standardized connector on every instrument, and in expandability, recon? gurability, and greater range of

Wi-Fi connectivity is available on every standard logger. missions than other UUV’s in the class. The SEAScout

All Generation³ instruments run on AA batteries. By hav- family of vehicles enable the accomplishment of mul- ing one cable that ? ts all, with widely available batteries, tiple maritime mission sets from a single baseline plat- preparing for deployments has never been easier. The Wi- form incorporating recon? gurable payloads.

Fi connectivity allows the user to control, download, and

The SEAScout family of vehicles is based upon a view data via Ruskin Mobile. Other Generation³ features 4-7/8” diameter by 36” long baseline system dubbed include reduced power consumption and faster sampling.

MkII. QinetiQ have operated variants to accommodate

The lower power platform also enables vertical pro? ling payloads expanding to 48” long. Operating speed is ? oats, such as Argo, and autonomous underwater vehi- 2kn with maximum speed in excess of 16kn. The ve- cles, such as ocean gliders, to sample more frequently or hicle depth is 800 ft. and weight at 22 lb. dry. The bat- extend their mission duration, greatly reducing costs or tery may be customer speci? ed. All SEAScout vehicles enabling extended missions. By increasing the sampling maintain the ability to of? oad data or re-task while de- rate up to 32Hz, RBR instruments can be used for mixing ployed. They are also able to trail an array for sensing studies and to resolve thin layers in the ocean. For system and data collection within the vehicle. New to the fam- integrators, the RBR loggers act as a ‘sensor hub’ to con- ily for 2019 is the development of the MkIII vehicle. trol and communicate with a suite of sensors.

The MkIII vehicle maintains the baseline diameter but is 62” long to accommodate a wide range of sensors to enable a forward deployed robust IPOE, ISR, or marine survey missions. The operational speed range is 2kn to 12kn, and is still hand portable at 40 lbs. dry.

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