Rapid deployable buoy geared for multiple missions.

• Author: Williams, Robert H.
• Position: TECH TALK

A COMPACT AUTONOMOUS mooring buoy that can be equipped with a variety of sensor packages for military and scientific missions is being produced by Florida Atlantic University at Boca Raton, Fla., and Lockheed Martin Corp.

Among its many possible functions are submarine detection and location, weather and oceanographic measurement and communication and control of autonomous underwater vehicles.

Originally designed by university researchers and...