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Aquabotix Gets Aboard Navy Info Warfare Consortium

Monday, August 27th, 2018

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Aquabotix Gets Aboard Navy Info Warfare Consortium

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The underwater robotics company UUV Aquabotix Ltd. was accepted as a member of the Navy’s new Information Warfare Research Project (IWRP) consortium, the company said on Monday.The IWRP, falling within the Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), aims to give participants a forum to pitch new information warfare (IW) capabilities to SPAWAR officials.The consortium will run competitions for individual prototype projects to find IW tools for SPAWAR to use. This includes technologies in cyber warfare, data analytics, assured…

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