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¯ Viridien ¯ FarSounder ¯ Vatn Systems 2025, further enhances these offerings The research supported by this award ¯ F arSounder Awarded Manufac- and will retain its site in Saint-Renan. will bene? t FarSounder’s existing cus- turing Innovation Voucher to Ad-

To support the achievement of its am- tomer base through future software vance AI-Based Sonar Capabilities bitions, RTsys Group strengthened its FarSounder, a leader in 3D Forward updates, while also enabling new in- long-term ? nancing in 2025 by more Looking Sonar technology, has been tegrations across emerging maritime than USD$4.69 million (€4 million), awarded a Manufacturing Innovation applications. These include pilot-as- including USD$2.35 million (€2 mil- Voucher by the Rhode Island Commerce sist systems for high-speed passenger lion) through a capital increase to ac- Corporation. The award will support vessels, autonomous and minimally company the group's industrial trans- advanced research and development manned platforms, advanced colli- formation while reinforcing its R&D focused on integrating automatic target sion-avoidance systems, and enhancing investments in order to maintain its recognition into FarSounder’s end-user autonomy for USV platforms.

technological lead. sonar software.

Under the Innovation Voucher pro- ¯ V atn Systems Acquires Crewless iridien Completes Reimaging of gram, FarSounder will build on an ex- ¯ V Marine isting proof-of-concept to bring ma- Vatn Systems, a defense technology

BM-S-2 Multi-Client Survey in San- chine-learning target recognition into a company building autonomous underwa- tos Basin

Viridien has successfully completed fully integrated software prototype. This ter vehicles (AUVs) for the US military, the BM-S-2 seismic reimaging project work will introduce automated classi? - allied nations, and commercial custom- in the southern Santos Basin, delivering cation of key sonar targets, focusing on ers, announced the acquisition of Crew- a high-? delity 3D dataset across 8,468 sea? oor features, wake-related bubbles, less Marine, a Rhode Island-based com- sq km to support growing exploration engine noise interference, and in-water pany specializing in advanced underwater activity in one of the most strategic, objects such as whales, ice, rocks, and acoustic sensing and signal processing.

emerging offshore regions of Brazil. coral. The underlying framework is de- Founded by former Navy engineers,

The project upgrades a large legacy signed to expand over time, enabling Crewless Marine brings experience in survey with the latest advanced imag- additional target classes as new data be- torpedo acoustic systems, hydrophone ing technologies, including time-lag comes available manufacturing, and real-time signal full waveform inversion (TL-FWI), to FarSounder’s work leverages more processing. The acquisition strengthens provide clearer de? nition of post-salt than two decades of sonar expertise Vatn's strategy to vertically integrate its stratigraphy, improved visibility of po- and a proprietary data set of over 80 tech stack to control critical technolo- tential direct hydrocarbon indicators terabytes of real-world sonar record- gies, reduce supply chain dependen- (DHIs), and new insights into underex- ings collected globally. Using this data, cies, and accelerate development cycles plored pre-salt plays. FarSounder has already demonstrated for autonomous systems. Additionally,

The reimaged BM-S-2 survey seam- a convolutional neural network (CNN) Crewless is executing on a Navy SBIR lessly integrates with Viridien’s broader capable of processing raw sonar data in for "AI/ML Multi-Sensor/Multi-Target

Constellation Extension survey, creating real time with performance comparable Localization." uni? ed regional coverage that supports to existing classical algorithms. This As part of the transaction, Crewless both play-scale screening and detailed foundation offers greater ? exibility to Marine co-founder Steve Bordonaro, prospect assessment across South Santos. expand object recognition capabilities PhD, will join Vatn as Chief Engineer through additional training. for Systems, and co-founder Philip www.marinetechnologynews.com 53

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