Battelle, teamed with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center and sonar developer EdgeTech Marine, has demonstrated a proof-of-concept technology for scanning both sides of a ship's submerged hull during transit in port environment to be able to check to see if weapons of mass destruction, mines, and bundles of illegal drugs may be attached. The Harbor Shield demonstration took place over the summer in Narragansett Bay, R.I., and was used to scan the hulls on vessels as small as a 30-foot…
Battelle, Navy Developing Technology to Scan Ship and Boat Hulls
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