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Navy-DARPA Effort Using Lasers For Sub Comms At Speed And Depth

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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

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By Geoff Fein While the Navy is developing communication buoys to enable submarines to pass data while at speed and depth, a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) effort is demonstrating the feasibility to use lasers to achieve the same objective. The goal of the Tactical Relay InformaTIOn Network (TRITON) program is to develop and demonstrate the feasibility of two-way laser communications between an aircraft and submarine while operating at speed and depth, Larry Stotts, DARPA program manager, told Defense…

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