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.
AQS-24B/C Minehunting System
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.
μSAS
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).