Oceanography for the warfighter: building a picture of the littoral

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The US Navy seeks to secure capabilities to counter mines and diesel submarines in rapidly-changing, complex and diverse environment as it encounters new naval oceanography challenges due to expeditionary warfare and shallow water operations. The USN also looks to provide support for its strike warfare special and amphibious operations as warfare moves from deep-ocean to shallow water environments. The USN and the NATO Military Oceanographic Community (MILOC) are concentrating on new data gathering and dissemination techniques and technology, sophisticated high-bandwidth communication and high technology computer networks to answer the challenges presented by oceanography in the littoral.

Military Preparedness

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DARPA uncovers next-generation submarine technologies

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The next batch of US Navy nuclear-powered attack submarines could be fitted with a variety of advanced technologies, according to a presentation made to the National Security Industrial Association. The technologies include: a boundary layer manipulation technique called electromagnetic turbulence control (EMTC); a line of supercavitating weapons; multifunction sensor suites; and smart skins. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has come up with and tested different technological advances in flow phenomena and their use to a range of platforms, including submarines, surface ships and torpedoes.

Ship Building and Repairing, Patrol Submarines, Submarines

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Torpedo problem for US Navy and industry

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The US Navy's Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) commanding admiral has criticized the situation of the US torpedo industry, as well as the service, for lack of effort and funding for torpedo research and development. Vice Adm Dugan Shipway also objected to the emphasis being given for the detection of diesel-electric submarines in shallow water, but not on new generation weapons that will combat such threat. The US Navy will also not receive any newly-produced torpedoes, and could suffer from the reduced annual budget allocation for torpedo R&D.

Market information - general, Other Ordnance and Accessories Manufacturing, Torpedoes & Parts, Defense Analysis, Military readiness, Torpedoes, Military planning

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