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Aurora Flight Sciences Wins US Air Force Contract on Vision-Based Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) Guidance
Aurora Flight Sciences announced today that the company has been selected for a U.S. Air Force SBIR Phase II award in support of vision-based micro air vehicle MAV guidance. Aurora will be developing an integrated system for guidance of MAVs through cluttered environments using vision and sonar. The system...
Tags: aerospace, Air Force, Manufacturing, sonar, Strategy, vision
Research articles 2008-10-23
Integrating Charting and Acoustic Habitat Research
NOAA Hydrographers and Fishery Biologists Collaborate on Multi-Mission Projects in Alaska The National Marine Fisheries Service NMFS is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA line office responsible for managing the fishery resources of the United States according to mandates in the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act...
Tags: Alaska, habitat, NOAA, OCS, sonar, survey
Research articles 2008-08-01
DOJ asks court to review sonar use
WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department on Monday asked the Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court decision limiting the Navy's use of sonar off the Southern California coast because of potential harm to dolphins and whales. The Justice Department petition argues that the decision by the...
Tags: sonar, U.S. Department of Justice
Research articles 2008-04-04
DOJ asks Supreme Court to review Navy sonar use
WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department on Monday asked the Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court decision limiting the Navy's use of sonar off the Southern California coast because of potential harm to dolphins and whales. The Justice Department petition argues that the decision by the...
Tags: sonar, U.S. Department of Justice
Research articles 2008-04-01
DOJ asks Supreme Court to review Navy sonar use
WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department on Monday asked the Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court decision limiting the Navy's use of sonar off the Southern California coast because of potential harm to dolphins and whales. The Justice Department petition argues that the decision by the...
Tags: sonar, U.S. Department of Justice
Research articles 2008-04-01
A 52-million year-old fossil shows bats developed flight before sonar
PARIS AFP — A nearly perfect bat fossil unveiled on Wednesday, has settled a long-simmering evolutionary debate: that the animals could fly before they developed sonar to track and trap their prey. Most experts had thought it was the other way around, according to the study, published in the...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, food, Manufacturing, sonar, species
Research articles 2008-02-13
US judge rejects Bush decision over Navy sonar use
LOS ANGELES AFP — A Los Angeles judge has rejected a decision by President George W. Bush allowing the Navy to use sonar equipment accused of endangering marine life, stating there was no emergency to justify over-riding existing environmental laws, court documents showed Tuesday. In a 36-page opinion, US...
Tags: Cooper, sonar
Research articles 2008-02-05
Migrating Squid Drove Evolution of Sonar in Whales
Behind the sailor's lore of fearsome battles between sperm whales and giant squid lies a deep question of evolution: How did these leviathans develop the underwater sonar needed to chase and catch squid in the inky depths? Now, two evolutionary biologists at the University of California UC, Berkeley, claim that-just...
Tags: sonar, University of California at Berkeley
Research articles 2007-10-01
Robotic car gears up for a challenge
WEST VALLEY CITY -- On its first trip down the test track, "Red Rover" did well until it hit the intersection. Instead of stopping and turning left, it began to turn in circles. "I wonder where it's going?" Mark Minor, an associate professor in the University of Utah's...
Tags: car, DARPA, laser, sonar, team
Research articles 2007-07-16
Maine Mammals Tested for Reactions to Military Sonar
WASHINGTON, DC ENS — --> To learn how military active sonar systems affect whales and other marine mammals, scientists from NOAA Fisheries Service plan to expose animals in the Bahamas to the loud sonar sounds and monitor their behavior. "Carefully controlled field studies in realistic...
Tags: Bahamas, NOAA, sonar
Research articles 2007-06-08
Congress blinks
Congress late last week did what seemed inevitable from the outset, passing a bill that funds the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through Sept. 30, to the tune of about $95 billion. The bill was approved without a timetable for beginning a withdrawal of American troops, as Democrats wanted, or...
Tags: Bush, Democrat, sonar, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2007-05-30
Coda Octopus Appoints Tom Brady as Controller
Coda Octopus Group, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: CDOC), a world leader in port security technology, headquartered here, today announced the appointment of Thomas P. Brady as its Controller. Mr. Brady, 33, has served for the past six years in management and administrative roles of increasing responsibility with Prudential Securities, Wachovia, and...
Tags: FINANCE, Prudential Insurance Company of America, SALES, sonar, Wachovia Corp.
Research articles 2007-05-14
Test and Evaluation of Interferometric Sonar Technology
Integrating Phase Differencing Bathymetric Sonar into Suite of Tools Used for Nautical Charting Hydrographic Surveying The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminislnition NOAA spends a large portion of its overall nautical charting hydrographie survey effort obtaining bathymetrie data in waters shoaler than 21) meters. Not only does it take...
Tags: MARKETING, NOAA, sonar, survey, technology
Research articles 2007-03-01
New National Defense Exemption to Marine Mammal Protection Act Authorized for Navy.
M2 PRESSWIRE-24 January 2007-US DOD: New National Defense Exemption to Marine Mammal Protection Act Authorized for NavyC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:23012007 Following consultation with the Department of Commerce, the Department of Defense today announced authorization of a two-year national defense...
Tags: authorization, compliance, exemption, sonar, training, U.S. Department of Defense
Research articles 2007-01-24
Search for Indonesian plane finds aircraft nose–like object
JAKARTA AFP — Investigators searching for a missing Indonesian airliner have said they have detected an object resembling an aircraft nose on the sea bed. The Adam Air plane was carrying 102 passengers and crew when it went missing halfway through its flight from Surabaya on the central island of...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, aircraft, coast, Manufacturing, sonar
Research articles 2007-01-15
US ship combs seabed for missing plane
ON BOARD KRI FATAHILLAH, Indonesia AFP — A US Navy ocean survey ship has scanned the waters off an Indonesian island where investigators believe metal objects detected on the seabed could be wreckage from a missing passenger plane. The large objects were detected by sonar at a depth of around...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Mary, Sears Roebuck & Co., sonar
Research articles 2007-01-10
Parallel precision on a Lexus: Do luxury car owners really need it?(Business of Life)(Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. Inc. Lexus Div.)(Brief article)
Byline: Darci Smith Those frustrated by parallel parking need cuss and bump no longer: The new 2007 Lexus LS 460 and LS 460 L can be equipped with an Advanced Parking Guidance System. The driver positions the car and identifies the spot with the...
Tags: car, sonar, verdict
Research articles 2006-10-30
Under siege
Nearly everywhere the U.S. military trains, it now finds itself fending off flanking attacks from an enemy within. These environmental extremists say they are concerned about the impacts training activities have on plants and animals, but they also undoubtedly relish the opportunity to champion two liberal causes at once, by...
Tags: Hawaii, Republican, sonar, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2006-10-07
Deep Blue Marine Announces 17th-Century Anchor Discovery
KEY WEST, Fla. -- Wilf Blum, President and CEO of Deep Blue Marine Inc. (Pink Sheets:DPBM), announces that pictures of a circa 17th-century anchor discovered near Woman Key and Ballast Key in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary will be posted on the website at www.alldeepblue.com today. Deep Blue Marine...
Tags: FINANCE, MARKETING, sonar, survey, University of Oxford
Research articles 2006-10-02
Boeing Awarded $9.5M Air Force Order and Lockheed Martin Awarded Contract for Sonar Upgrades.
M2 PRESSWIRE-6 September 2006-U.S. Equity News: Boeing Awarded $9.5M Air Force Order and Lockheed Martin Awarded Contract for Sonar UpgradesC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06092006 City of Industry, CA - Defense industry alert provided by U.S. Equity News. Boeing Co.'s (NYSE:BA) aerospace...
Tags: Air Force, Boeing Co., Lockheed Martin Corp., Manufacturing, sonar
Research articles 2006-09-06
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