The U.S. Marine Corps has used aircraft-deployed, sensor-equipped buoys to study and quantify elements of the sea as a warfighting zone. The floating buoys descend to the ocean's depths to gather data
MoreThe U.S. Navy deploys unmanned underwater vehicles, also known as ocean gliders, to explore the worldâs oceans for up to four months in order to help predict sea currents, tides and density
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The Defense Departmentâs inspector general has called on the chief of contracts at the Naval Oceanographic Office to train contracting staff and establish procedures designed to change how NAVOCEANO awards task orders through
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The U.S. Navy has transported its newest oceanographic survey vessel to Port Everglades near Florida to its construction site Pascagoula, Mississippi in the ship’s first voyage. The Naval Oceanographic Officeâs civilian survey detachment assessed USNS
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