Quantum Technology Sciences Signs DARPA Contract to Advance Marine Seismic Acoustic Technology
February 28 2023 - 04:20PM
Business Wire
Geospace Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: GEOS) today announced
its subsidiary Quantum Technology Sciences, Inc. signed a $1.5
million contract with the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency
(DARPA).
The contract is a Phase II Small Business Innovative Research
(SBIR) to explore a new SADAR® capability using littoral seabed
deployed passive seismic-acoustic phased arrays for monitoring
energy sources of interest on the nearby land, water and air
environments.
“Our parent company Geospace has decades of deployment
experience with both cabled and nodal seismic systems in a marine
environment for energy exploration. Through this project, we will
blend the strength of Geospace’s experience in high quality seismic
data acquisition in a littoral environment with the unmatched
sophistication of Quantum’s seismic data analytics,” said Mark
Tinker, CEO of Quantum Technology Sciences.
Historically, the land-water transition zone, which includes
shallow littoral waters, the surf zone, and onshore terrestrial
environments, is a difficult geographic zone to surveil. Overhead
surveillance may provide limited time frames and discrete views of
activities and can often be countered by camouflage, concealment,
and deception (CCD) techniques. In contrast, surveillance using
passive acoustic and seismic technologies such as SADAR® provides
persistent monitoring that cannot be countered by CCD techniques
and cannot be easily detected. Through this contract effort,
improving upon individual unattended ground sensors, phased array
networks will collect non-line-of-site signals for vibrational
sources allowing separate, simultaneous target identification,
classification and tracking in near real-time.
About Quantum Technology Sciences
Quantum designs and sells tactical security and surveillance
solutions to safeguard highly valued assets, critical
infrastructure, borders and perimeters. Since its inception in
1991, Quantum has provided valuable geophysical sensing
technologies to serve various U.S. government missions to include
the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of
Homeland Security and other agencies. For more information, visit
www.QTSI.com.
About Geospace Technologies
Geospace Technologies is a global technology and instrumentation
manufacturer specializing in vibration sensing and highly
ruggedized products which serve energy, industrial, government and
commercial customers worldwide. The Company’s products blend
engineering expertise with advanced analytic software to optimize
energy exploration, enhance national and homeland security, empower
water utility and property managers, and streamline electronic
printing solutions. With more than four decades of excellence, the
Company’s more than 600 employees across the world are dedicated to
engineering and technical quality. Geospace is traded on the U.S.
NASDAQ stock exchange as GEOS. For more information, visit
www.geospace.com.
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