Kongsberg Discovery

Kongsberg Discovery acquires Naxys Technologies

Kongsberg Discovery has announced an agreement to acquire Naxys Technologies AS, a Bergen-based underwater environmental monitoring technology firm, specializing in detecting oil and gas leaks through sound recognition.

Kongsberg CEO Geir Håøy mentioned: “As a technology company and ocean space expert, we have developed world-leading solutions to map, monitor and understand the oceans, which actually cover 70 per cent of the Earth’s surface and remain largely unexplored. The acquisition of Naxys...

https://container-news.com/kongsberg-discovery-acquires-naxys-technologies/

Factory testing concluded for Norwegian-developed long-endurance AUV

A Kongsberg Hugin Endurance AUV

Norway’s Kongsberg, via its Kongsberg Discovery technology division, has confirmed that the first production example of its long-range Hugin Endurance autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) has completed factory acceptance testing. Sea trials for the first production unit began in September 2023. In...

https://www.bairdmaritime.com/work-boat-world/specialised-fields/unmanned-craft-non-naval/factory-testing-concluded-for-norwegian-developed-long-endurance-auv/

Navy and DIU select three “best in the breed” vendors to advance LDUUV development

The Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the Navy’s Program Office Advanced Undersea Systems (PMS 394) have selected three vendors to prototype and develop Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) platforms.

The DIU says that undersea warfare is critical to success in the Pacific and other contested environments, providing needed autonomous underwater sensing and payload delivery in dispersed, long-range, deep and contested environments is key. In particular, the U.S. military...

https://www.marinelog.com/technology/navy-and-diu-select-three-best-in-the-breed-vendors-to-advance-lduuv-development/

New U.S.-built trawler-processor Arctic Fjord starts sea trials

Arctic Fjord, the first new trawler-processor for Alaskan pollock to be built in the U.S. in over three decades is now undergoing sea trials in the Northern Pacific. Ordered from Houma, La., shipbuilder Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors by Seattle headquartered Arctic Storm Management Group, LLC , the 100 meter long Jones Act vessel was designed by Kongsberg Maritime.

Set to commence full-time operations for 2024’s pollock A season in the Bering Sea, on sea trials it is testing an integrated...

https://www.marinelog.com/news/new-u-s-built-trawler-processor-arctic-fjord-starts-sea-trials/