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INSIGHTS SCIENCE RESEARCH MANAGEMENT © Who is Danny/AdobeStock PAVING THE WAY IN INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE RESEARCH MANAGEMENT Dr. Eleanor Darlington, Head of Marine Facilities Programs at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), discusses how NOC is paving the way in international science research
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TECH FEATURE: AUTONOMY MARTAC unmanned surface vehicles MANTAS and Devil Ray were mainstays of this exercise. Here is how one defense analyst captured the essence of MARTAC’s participation in IMX 22: MARTAC has a strong presence in 5th Fleet operating with Task Force 59, a Middle-East-based task force