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Monday, January 16, 2012

DARPA taps three companies to develop low-power, non-acoustic ASW technologies for UAVs

Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) experts in the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., have awarded their third industry contract for a program that seeks to develop technologies to help detect enemy submarines in shallow coastal waters and harbors without using traditional acoustic submarine-hunting technologies like sonar.

The DARPA Strategic Technology Office on Friday awarded Cortana Corp. in Falls Church, Va., a $496,500 contract for the Shallow Water Agile Submarine Hunting (SWASH) program, which seeks to develop small, lightweight, low power non-acoustic ASW surveillance and cued search capability for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

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