Offensive and defensive weapons systems associated with undersea warfare. One of the laboratories of the Naval Sea Systems Command, NUWC is headquartered in Rhode Island, and has two major activities -- Division Newport (also in RI) and Division Keyport (in Washington State)
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The Naval Undersea Warfare Center ( NUWC ) is the Navy's full-spectrum research, development, test and evaluation, engineering and fleet support center for submarines, autonomous underwater systems, and offensive and defensive weapons systems associated with undersea
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SOSUS consists of bottom mounted hydrophone arrays connected by undersea communication cables to facilities on shore. The individual arrays are at locations optimized for undistorted long range acoustic propagation.
Vents Program Acoustic Monitoring Project has
performed continuous monitoring of ridge systems in the eastern Pacific since
August, 1991 using the SOSUS network and autonomous hydrophones.
Long-term monitoring of the central equatorial Pacific, North Atlantic, and Gulf of Alaska
is in progress using moored autonomous hydrophones.
the global ocean through underwater acoustics
SUrveillance System (SOSUS)
Illustration from Nishimura and Conlon, 1994, provided by
Clyde Nishimura, Naval Research Laboratory.
SO und SU rveillance S ystem, or SOSUS, is
a fixed component of the U.S. Navy's Integrated Undersea Surveillance
NSWC Indian Head Division is located 30 miles south of Washington, DC. It specializes in Naval explosives. Primary products are explosive materials used in Navy munitions, and the processes for producing them.
The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego (SSC San Diego) is a leader in command and control including the technology to collect, transmit, process, display and manage information essential to naval operations.