GD Bluefin-21 AUV Launches Bluefin SandShark Micro-Underwater Vehicle
The General Dynamics Bluefin-21 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) successfully launched multiple Bluefin SandShark micro-autonomous underwater vehicles (M-AUV) Underwater vehicle (M-AUV as part of several capability demonstrations at the U.S. Navy sponsored 2016 Annual Naval Technology Exercises (ANTX) in Newport, R.I. Through several ANTX demonstrations, the Bluefin SandShark M-AUVs surfaced and functioned independent of the heavyweight-class Bluefin-21. In one mission scenario, the Bluefin-21 simulated data collection and transfer of target imagery and other information to two Bluefin SandSharks. Those Bluefin SandSharks then surfaced to communicate with a Blackwing unmanned aerial vehicle.
U.S. Navy: New Software to Analyze Accelerations on High-speed Boats
Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Carderock engineers released a new software that provides the government, industry and academia a standardized method of analyzing data that is expected to improve high-speed craft design. The Standard G software uses a physics-based approach to analyze data recorded during wave-impact testing on watercraft and was developed in partnership with the Office of Naval Research, the U.S. Naval Academy and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Raytheon Zumwalt-class Destroyer Software Development Program
Raytheon Company deliver more than 6-million lines of software to the U.S. Navy for the DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer program. Part of the Total Ship Computing Environment (TSCE) -- the integrated mission system for the DDG 1000 class -- the software delivery supports ship activation and combat system testing, set to commence this year. The magnitude of this software development program is recognized as one of the most complex in the history of the U.S. Navy. TSCE continues to achieve all critical readiness milestones on schedule…
Northrop Grumman Supports First LCS Mission Package Delivery
and the U.S. ceremonies tomorrow in Panama City, Fla. being developed for the LCS. warfare. containerized and ready for installation and activation aboard any LCS. management grid. and surface warfare packages in 2008 and 2009. Dr. Delores M. for the event. senior company official at the ceremony. packages. that are developing and delivering the first several prototypes. as a "plug-and-fight" package. and with the greater Navy network in which the LCS functions. subsurface domains. They comprise warfighting capabilities (e.g. the operators. unmanned vehicle, a Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems product. 20 feet long, 8 feet wide and 8 feet tall. mine countermeasures package. containers to be shipped to staging areas around the world. Littoral Mine Warfare.
FAU Receives $2m ONR Grant to Design and Build Prototype
Florida Atlantic University's SeaTech - Institute for Ocean and Systems Engineering in Dania Beach, which is part of the College of Engineering and Computer Science, has been awarded a $2m grant by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to investigate, design and build a prototype of a rapidly-deployable, multi- mission platform to be used as an enabling technology for seabasing. This concept of a "base at sea" will enable and sustain operations equivalent to the size of a Navy unit or larger - a substantial expansion of today's amphibious operations capabilities. eliminate the need for a land base when conducting military operations. more than $55 million. This two-year project is headed by Dr. Engineering. Applied Physics Corporation. performance," said Dr. project. Dr.
ASNE Day to Feature Timely Technical Papers, Informative Exhibits
The American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE) annual exhibition, conference, and annual meeting, ASNE Day 2001, is set for April 30 - May 1, 2001 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City Hotel in Arlington, Va. Attendees and exhibitors will have the opportunity to see the latest products on display and to listen to military leaders and industry executives discuss issues critical to naval engineering as we enter the next millennium. ASNE Day events begin Monday, April 30 with a plenary session. The conference's keynote speaker is RADM Jay M. Cohen, USN, Chief of Naval Research. Admiral Cohen's address will focus on the ASNE Day 2001 theme, "Technology Insertion in the 21st Century Fleet…
ASNE to Hold Conference
The American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE) is holding its annual exhibition, conference and meeting on April 30-May 1 in Arlington, Va. ASNE Day 2001 kicks off April 30 with a plenary session. Keynote speaker is RADM Jay M. Cohen, USN, Chief of Naval Research. His address will focus on ASNE Day's theme, "Technology Insertion in the 21st Century Fleet." Following his address will be a panel discussion on Technical Insertion with senior representatives from Naval Sea Systems Command, Program Executive Offices and the Navy Laboratories. ASNE will recognize the technical program's authors and present prestigious awards at the Awards Luncheon.
Navy: U.S. Forces Cannot Handle Growing Threat of Mine Warfare
U.S. naval forces are poorly equipped to counter a growing mine warfare threat and are about to lose the potentially decisive ability to plant sea minefields of their own, a report for the Navy released on Thursday said. A committee of the National Research Council cited the "largely unregulated sale" of underwater mines by Italy, Sweden, Russia and other ex-Soviet bloc states as contributing to the danger to U.S. mobility. More than 50 countries now possess a sea mining capability, it said. "U.S. naval forces are not now likely to be able to adequately handle the plausible near-term threat of mines either offshore or inshore," said the report, prepared at the request of the chief of naval operations, Admiral Vernon Clark.
