Keynote speakers:  Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope KCB OBE Commander-in-Chief Fleet (CINCFLEET)
Vice Admiral Anthony K Dymock CB, UK Military Representative to NATO and the EU
Rear Admiral (Armament) Jacques Cousquer. Naval Technical Director, Delegation générale pour l'armement, French MOD, France

News release:-
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms will present a poster session entitled “Technical Needs and Challenges in Harbor Surveillance”.“High frequency sonar applications are not a new concept,” said Dan Veenstra, Product Manager, Mil/Aero Products Group at GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, who will be delivering the paper. “Navies of the world have been using high frequency sonar to seek out mines for the past 60 years. More recently, however, a growing imperative to counter terrorist threats to harbors and coastal areas has created the need for a new range of high frequency sonar products, designed to detect and track specific surface and underwater targets such as divers, swimmers and water vehicles.”

“As a consequence, COTS vendors of acquisition products have been forced to re-examine, and in some cases redesign, existing technical solutions to cope with the very demanding requirements of these applications,” he continued. “My paper will look at the newest approaches to acquiring and processing high frequency sonar signals and the benefits these have over older traditional approaches.” Veenstra will deliver his session (Session PIII.1) from 12:30pm on June 12^th.

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