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Augmenting the RCN's Current Capabilities
This contract provided the RCN FDU-A access to cutting edge technology and high-resolution seabed data. With Kraken deploying its KATFISH towed SAS sonar system as well as integrating a Kraken Light Weight SAS (LW-SAS) onboard a RCN-owned Huntington Ingalls REMUS 100 Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV), Kraken's RaaS service demonstrated that FDU-A's existing capabilities can be augmented by using service-based offerings of cutting-edge technology with significantly better data, at a much lower cost, and leveraging continuously improving capabilities.
Throughout the course of the contract, Kraken's team successfully demonstrated that the range, area coverage rates, and resolution of Kraken's KATFISH and LW-SAS systems met or exceeded target specifications. Furthermore, the Kraken and FDU-A teams worked closely on integration of the payload, demonstrating that the LW-SAS can be installed and removed from vehicles in the field. Finally, the FDU-A team was trained on using Kraken's cloud-based post mission analysis tools for interrogating data following mission completion, and for conducting change detection.
Commenting on the successful completion of this contract,
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Benefits to the Navies
Kraken believes its RaaS offering can provide significant benefits to other navies around the world. With Kraken RaaS, navies can access cutting edge technology 'as needed', without concern for equipment obsolescence, life cycle costs, or operator skill fade. As it relates specifically to the RCN, Kraken RaaS offers many advantages: Both RCN operating bases, MARLANT (Maritime Forces Atlantic) and MARPAC (Maritime Forces Pacific) are mandated to maintain Q-routes (safe passage lanes along the coasts and into designated harbors, of Canadian waters) on an annual basis. These surveys take a significant amount of time with current RCN technology due to image quality and speed of current towed bodies. Kraken's technology would greatly enhance the image quality and reduce survey time significantly due to the advance in state-of-the-art technology.
Kraken's technology can be deployed to assist the RCN in mapping areas of interest ahead of regular exercises and operations, with the image quality required to enable change detection and optimize revisit rates. This has the potential to provide the RCN with a competitive edge for detecting bottom objects in complex seabeds.
Kraken's technology and service application can augment route survey activities while simultaneously supporting near shore hydrographic mapping and charting requirements on an annual basis with high-definition resolution, freeing up valuable
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