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Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has partnered with

Mythos AI to integrate AI-driven autonomy software.

Forcys has announced it will deploy its Sentinel

Intruder Detection System across multiple sites for a close allied nation to protect vital elements of their critical national infrastructure.

Ocean Aero’s 4-meter Navigator and Discovery models. Sail- end solutions without compatibility issues,” says Pickering. drone is supplying at least 20 of its Voyagers to the U.S. Navy He cites the example of Sonardyne’s SPRINT-Nav, an all-in- to monitor illegal activity along the U.S. southern maritime one subsea navigation instrument that integrates an inertial approaches, and the Navy and Coast Guard have deployed navigation system, a Doppler velocity log and a depth sensor.

MARTAC and SAFE Boat USVs for demonstrations at Cali- Like the Ukrainian drone, the sophisticated technologies fornian ports. Ocean Aero’s Triton autonomous underwater now available support attack operations as well as defense. In and surface vehicle (AUSV) was taken up by the Port of Gulf- response, ThayerMahan recently released SeaGuard, a non-ki- port in Mississippi last year. The vehicle does a full scan of the netic underwater defeat system that repels hostile AUVs and de- port twice a week using a variety of subsea payloads including ters divers. When coupled with ThayerMahan’s TransparenSea, bathymetry, side-scan sonar and magnetometers to produce Outpost, and SeaPicket acoustic intelligence solutions, it offers high-resolution comparative datasets for real-time change a detect-to-defeat chain. “From my time in uniform to my role detection. From his satellite of? ce in Houston, Ocean Aero today, one truth has remained constant: the underwater domain

CEO Kevin Decker says: “I can say with certainty that there evolves rapidly, and the threats evolve even faster,” said CEO is not espionage or sabotage placed at the bottom of the Port Vice Admiral Mike Connor, U.S. Navy (Ret.).

of Gulfport because I checked this morning and I’ve checked twice a week for the past nine months. I can’t say the same thing for the ports of New York City, Los Angeles, Houston or Seattle. In an era of con? ict and sea mining, that needs to change.”

Forcys and its partners demonstrated their combined under- water and multi-domain security systems at Portland Port, UK, last year. Observers were able to watch the threat scenario un- fold in real time as the company’s Sentinel Intruder Detection

Sonar (IDS) and MARSS’ NiDAR command and control plat- form worked in tandem to detect, track, classify and respond to a range of hostile events from underwater and the air.

NiDAR is a sensor-agnostic, multi-domain surveillance and security platform that integrates data from a wide array of sensors including sonar, radar, radio frequency and elec- tro-optical/infrared. The demonstration showed the power of integrating both passive and active sonar data when tracking low target strength drones or very slow-moving targets in the highly cluttered seabed conditions typical of some harbors.

Payloads need not be bespoke. Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and software is reliable, cost-effective and fast to implement – something that Forcys, soon to be part of the Kraken group, leverages. Technical Sales Manager,

Benn Pickering, says: “With COTS, you bene? t from tried- and-tested technology that has already been proven in real- world conditions.” Another key advantage is that COTS so- lutions evolve to keep pace with emerging technologies. “At

Forcys, we go beyond simply offering COTS products. Our technology partners are creating an ecosystem of compatible technologies that work seamlessly together, providing end-to- www.marinelink.com 31

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