Portable system tracks underwater threats.

• Author: Foster, Sharon
• Position: Tech Talk

After two weeks of intensive sea trials, the German Office of Defense Technology and Procurement has purchased a portable tracking system-the GIB-FT--which can monitor movements of four underwater vehicles and four surface or air vehicles at the same time, said Jean-Michel Coudeville, spokesperson for ORCA instrumentation.

Developed by two French companies, ORCA instrumentation and ACSA, the GIBFT is composed of a network of 12 buoys, a set of acoustic pingers, air and surface mobile tracking units, and a...