Underwater electrical applications face the problem of keeping current contained, specifically for recharging unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs). For Northrop Grumman engineers, the challenge sparked a surge in connective collaboration. The result? NiobiCon™ technology.
Northrop Grumman has three decades of in-fleet airborne mine countermeasure experience with 27 systems fielded. The company was the first to field electro-optic mine identification, and developed the first long-range synthetic aperture sonar for mine warfare, the first mine warfare unmanned surface vessel (jointly with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center) and mine warfare unmanned underwater vehicles.
Northrop Grumman micro-SAS (µSAS™) payload is a real-time interferometric synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) that is integrated on the L3 Oceanserver IVER3-580 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV).