Underwater Radar Detector Catches U.S. Navy's Attention

Few attributes are more important to a U.S. Navy submarine than stealth. But U.S. Navy Seals also need to get to their job site from the subs undetected as well. And that is an increasingly difficult task as technology improves for active sonar, making good systems affordable in areas where Seals are likely to try to conduct missions. “Everybody’s got a better fish-finder,” says Mark Storer, the senior vice president and general manager of the defense division of Information Systems Laboratories (ISL), which is developing a compact acoustic intercept system (CAIS) with Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funding under Office of Naval Research sponsorship ...