Kraken Announces $3.5 Million of Contract & Funding Awards - Seite 2

Synthetic Aperture Sonar Sensors
Kraken continues to see growing interest in our AquaPix MINSAS sensors, and specifically an interest by numerous AUV manufacturers to evaluate and integrate Kraken’s MINSAS in their AUV offerings to customers. Teledyne Gavia recently integrated Kraken’s MINSAS on their Gavia AUV in Iceland and noted “The increased range and resolution and associated higher Area Coverage Rate of MINSAS over traditional systems can significantly expand the capabilities of Teledyne Gavia AUV systems for a variety of tasks for naval, scientific and commercial applications.” To date, Kraken has seen its Aquapix sensors integrated on more than 15 different underwater vehicle platforms from a variety of manufacturers.

In 2020, Kraken completed development of a new, low-power, man portable AquaPix MINSAS sensor, and made its first two product deliveries to the United States Navy under the Foreign Comparative Test program. End user evaluation continues in Q1 2021 and Kraken expects this new product to be well received across a number of North American and international defense opportunities. We believe our AquaPix MINSAS sensor is gaining traction as it has been bid and is being incorporated into numerous RFI and RFP responses from larger defense companies and AUV manufacturers on notable upcoming programs.

Kraken is pleased that the Canadian RMDS (Remote Minehunting and Disposal System) program appears to finally be becoming a reality as the RFP is expected to be released in Q1 of this year. The stated objective of this program is: to develop a modular, stand-off Naval Mine Countermeasures capability, designed to provide the full spectrum of Naval Mine Hunting operations and contribute to underwater domain awareness. RMDS will generate the capability to detect, classify, localize, reacquire, identify, and dispose of sea mines and Underwater Improvised Explosive Devices, that pose a threat to Canadian and allied interests or impede the conduct of maritime operations. The RMDS project intends to leverage proven Commercial off the Shelf unmanned systems and Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) technology. These RMDS payloads will contain modular sub-systems that are portable and deployable. The Canadian government preliminary estimate for this contract ranges from $20 million to over $40 million. Kraken intends to partner with several large defense contractors on this bid.