Intellicheck Mobilisa received a $4.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy for wireless security buoys that can detect water quality, oil spills, and maritime threats.
Intellicheck Mobilisa received a $4.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy for wireless security buoys that can detect water quality, oil spills, and maritime threats. The buoys provide a high-capacity communications network grid to provide real-time monitoring for marine environments.
The Puget Sound company began testing the buoy program last year, and was developed in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and the University of Washington Applied Physics Lab (UW APL). Security buoys are already deployed in the North Puget Sound area providing oceanographic data to researchers.
The wireless networking grid will have the capability to provide Maritime Propositioning Force Offload/Onload monitoring, in addition to being an asset to the layered harbor defense concept (extended surveillance) for Naval Coastal Warfare units.