Marine Systems |
Leveraging core
competencies for growth in
the U.S. and international
ocean surveillance,
antisubmarine warfare, and
undersea mine warfare
markets.Ocean SurveillanceOur strategy: Build on strengths in sensors, signal processing, undersea mechanical systems, and systems design, test, and integration to achieve world leadership in the rapidly growing ocean surveillance market. Marine Systems is part of a Lockheed Martin Federal Systems team that has been selected to build a prototype of the U.S. Navy's Advanced Deployable System, a low-cost, underwater surveillance system used to protect shallow-water, coastal and harbor areas from diesel submarines. As the major subcontractor on the team, we will build the system's underwater sensor and deployment systems and integrate them with a shipboard or on-shore acoustic processor. Internationally, Marine Systems is pursuing the ocean surveillance market as part of a four-company consortium that will supply to allied navies the Undersea Coastal Surveillance System, a low-cost detection and tracking tool for coastal and harbor defense. | Manuel Gonzalez, Advanced Deployable System Technical Director, Scott Jensen, Marketing Manager, and Hearst Coen, Program Director. We are part of a Lockheed Martin Federal Systems team selected to build this low-cost underwater surveillance system. "The diesel-electric submarine threat, the shallow-water environment, and the deployment requirements make the Advanced Deployable System (ADS) a key program for the Navy and for the Lockheed Martin Federal Systems team. Alliant's leadership in undersea 'listening' technologies - advanced undersea sensors and electronics in rugged packaging for underwater deployment, plus fiber-optic cable and optical telemetry - has contributed greatly to the ADS shallow-water surveillance solution." Mark Fitzpatrick,
Our synthetic aperture sonar test vehicle enables us to test sensors for use in mine warfare and ocean surveillance applications, including detection of underwater mines, buried ordnance, undersea cables, and oceanographic research. |
Antisubmarine WarfareOur strategy: Leverage competencies in undersea vehicle design, integration, and test, sensors, and signal processing to strengthen our position as the world's leading designer and producer of torpedo systems. Marine Systems is the sole producer of the Mk 46 torpedo, the standard lightweight torpedo in the U.S. and 26 allied countries. Prospects for expansion in the international market remain strong as demand for the Mk 46 is driven by the global proliferation of diesel submarines and the need for modernization of existing inventories. In pursuing these opportunities, Marine Systems will continue to focus on delivering high-quality, low-cost torpedoes, flexible manufacturing alternatives, and providing after-market services through our Engineering Services Center. We solidified our lightweight torpedo leadership position with the capture of the Lightweight Hybrid Torpedo program, the only U.S. Navy torpedo development and production program for the foreseeable future. We are teamed with Hughes Aircraft Company on this important new weapon system, which is designed to counter diesel submarine threats in shallow-water environments. | Above: Left, Jay DeRosier, Torpedo Systems Director, and Jim Pene, Lightweight Hybrid Torpedo Program Director, pictured with a model of the LHT developed for our program proposal. We leveraged our long history in the design, testing, integration, and manufacturing of lightweight torpedoes to win a contract for development and production of the Lightweight Hybrid Torpedo, the only new U.S. Navy torpedo program for the foreseeable future. The contract win solidifies our position as the world's leading designer and manufacturer of lightweight torpedoes. "The Lightweight Hybrid Torpedo offers an affordable opportunity to meet the diesel submarine threat by capitalizing on acquisition reform and leveraging research, development, and procurement investment in the MK 50, MK48 (ADCAP) and Mk 46 MOD 5 torpedoes. It will be a major step in adapting to both the emerging shallow-water threat and the realities of reduced budgets." (From a 1996 interview on the proliferation of diesel submarines.) Captain Gary Nelson, |
Undersea Mine WarfareOur strategy: Use capabilities in undersea mine neutralization sensors, combat systems, and systems integration to increase our role in the expanding mine warfare market. Building on our long involvement with the AN/SLQ-48 Mine Neutralization System, Marine Systems is developing new mine warfare systems such as the Advanced Lightweight Influence Sweep System, which significantly reduces the time needed to clear a beach assault area. We are combining our systems engineering and international experience with our acoustic sensor technologies to produce the Forward Area Combined Degaussing and Acoustic Range, a portable system that silences ships against underwater mines. The Integrated Combat Weapon System, a mine warfare modernization program spearheaded by Alliant, will combine multiple stand-alone combat weapon systems aboard U.S. mine hunting ships into an integrated system to provide significant cost and performance benefits. | Terry Corcoran, Sonar and Mine Warfare Business Development Manager, and U.S. Navy Mine Man First Class Todd Harnish about to board the Alliant, our test ship in Puget Sound, Washington, for a subsystem demonstration of the Integrated Combat Weapon System, a mine warfare modernization effort spearheaded by Marine Systems. | |