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www.seadiscovery.com Marine Technology Reporter 25 ducted experiments with the Navy fleet and increasingly, we will see T&E become more integrated with the fleet through the Sea Trial process as well as becoming fully integrated through all phases of development." From a NAVSEA perspective, in today's forward- deployed scenarios, technologies are needed that bring realism to training without the logistic costs of moving people and resources - and technologies are needed that leverage T&E events into training opportunities. AUV Fest showed that steps are being taken to make that vision a reality. AUV Fest 2005 is the second such event held at Keyport, home of one of the Navy's few cold-water under- sea test ranges. Established in 2001, NUTEC builds on more than 90 years of undersea systems test and evalua- tion experience to test new unmanned undersea platforms and aid in their transition to practical Fleet use. (The preceding report was supplied from a compilation of reports from NAVSEA Warfare Center Keyport Public Affairs; by JO2 David G. Schmidt, U.S. Navy Reserve Journalist, Commander Destroyer Squadron Two, Detachment B, Naval Marine, Corps Reserve Center, Harrisburg, PA; and by JO1(SW) Michael S. Howlett, COMSUBGRU9 Public Affairs) Solar AUVs (SAUVs), operated by the Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute (AUSI), in collaboration with NUWC Division Newport, Technology Systems, Inc., and Benthos, Inc., demonstrated capabilities for persistent surveillance by conducting multiple-vehicle cooperative operations using a "mother ship" navigation concept, with the vehicles taking turns operating while other UUVs sur- faced to recharge their batteries via their solar panels. The Mid-sized Autonomous Research Vehicle (MARV), developed by Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport, demonstrated underwater color video survey capabilities, high-accuracy inertial navigation, and interoperability with Solar AUVs (SAUVs) using acoustic communications. MTR#2 (17-32).qxd 8/30/2005 5:09 PM Page 25
