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Feature | Port Security 2020 SHIPPING & PORT ANNUAL operations to run in harmony with each other and avoiding supported by the University of Southern Mississippi at their costly downtime.” Marlin could marry the operational plans Marine Research Center at the Port of Gulfport. with a powerful geographic information system (GIS) engine During a week-long exercise, ION was tasked with work- with built-in archiving and look-forward analysis – helping to ing with AutoNaut, Atlas Electronik and Marine Arresting prevent asset con? icts. Technologies to provide an integrated system that would detect surface and underwater threats and coordinate a non-

Port Security lethal mitigation against them. The threats were divers (real

For the ANTX exercises, ION wanted to demonstrate that and mechanical/dummy) and unmanned underwater vehicles it could integrate third-party systems quickly into Marlin and (UUVs), including Remus and Riptide UUVs. Atlas Elec- then use it to provide the necessary information to enable de- tronik’s Cerberus was used to detect the threats, while their cision optimisation in port security scenarios. This is what SeaFox ? ber optic guided mine countermeasure tool was it got to do during the CNMOC exercises, which were also used to intercept and inspect them and a Stingray capture net

Graphic representation of the exercise; met-ocean data collection operations running concurrently with simulated threats, detection and mitigation assets.

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