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Raytheon’s New Sonar To Deploy On Unmanned DARPA Vessel

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, March 22nd, 2013

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A new sonar unit produced by Raytheon [RTN] will be deployed on an unmanned vessel procured by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as part of a program to explore autonomous navigation and submarine detection and tracking. Raytheon’s Modular Scalable Sonar System (MS3), which it was revealing for the first time in announcing its role in the DARPA program this month, will be installed on DARPA’s Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV), built by prime contractor SAIC [SAI]. Ed…

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