Marine & Oceanographic Technology Network (MOTN)

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MOTN Member News! Hydroid Engineering, Operations and Program Management Organizations Appraised at CMMI V2.0 Maturity Level 3

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Appraisal signifies an important milestone in Hydroid’s continuous improvement journey to establish best practices in cost, schedule and quality process performance  Pocasset, Mass. – May 30, 2019 – Hydroid, Inc., a subsidiary of Kongsberg Maritime and a leading manufacturer of marine robotic systems, today announced it was appraised at Maturity Level [ Continue reading. ]

MOTN Member News! Ships and Outfitting for Canada

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Brian Perkins of Dirigo Strategies, LLC will be attending the Canadian Association of Defence and Securities (CANSEC) Trade Show to be held in Ottawa, Ontario on May 29 and May 30th. Companies seeking representation are encouraged to make contact now. CANSEC 2019 will once again showcase leading-edge technology, products and services for naval, aerospace, [ Continue reading. ]

MOTN Member News! FarSounder Collaborates with URI Capstone Program

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FarSounder has partnered with the University of Rhode Island ELECOMP Capstone Program. In the program, two students were matched with a local business’ to work on designing, building, programming, and testing solutions to real-world problems. The two senior-level engineering students working with FarSounder this past school year were Thomas Lott and Cole [ Continue reading. ]

Teledyne RD Instruments Launches Two New Next-Gen Technologies

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(San Diego, Calif. – April 23, 2019)   In 1982, RD Instruments introduced the industry’s first Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), forever changing the way that ocean currents are measured around the globe.  Thirteen years later, this innovative technology was literally flipped on its head to create the industry’s first Doppler Velocity [ Continue reading. ]

TMTW 2019 Call for Speakers

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TELEDYNE MARINE TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP CALL FOR SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED (San Diego, Calif. – April 22, 2019)  Teledyne Marine has announced a call for speakers for its joint Teledyne Marine Technology Workshop (TMTW) to be hosted in San Diego, CA; October  6-9, 2019.   Teledyne Marine's 23 industry-leading brands will once again join forces [ Continue reading. ]

Zephyr Education Foundation’s Marine Science and Technology Program Celebrates 10th Year

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This spring Zephyr Education Foundation (ZEF) starts its 10 year hosting high school and college classes on field trips in Woods Hole. Each year over 2000 students participate in ZEF’s hands-on scientific “cruises” in Vineyard Sound. During the trips students deploy a benthic sled with camera to get live video on board of different habitats, deploy a [ Continue reading. ]

MOTN Member News! Prawler Joins McLane Profiler Line

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April 4, 2019 (Falmouth, MA) – McLane Research Laboratories, Inc. announces that the Prawler, a low cost, shallow profiling vehicle is now available as part of the McLane Profiler product line.  The Prawler collects and transmits sensor data from the surface to 500 m of the water column, traveling the mooring wire using wave actuated motion. April 9-11 [ Continue reading. ]