SAES has taken part in the ASW Barrier<\/strong> workshop within the NATO\u2019s REP MUS 21<\/strong> exercise (Robotic Experimentation and Prototyping Augmented by Maritime Unmanned Systems), held in Portugal from 13th to 24th September. As a company specialised in underwater acoustics and electronics, SAES participated in a conference where the \u2018ASW Barrier – Smart Defence Initiative\u2019 was presented to companies interested as well as in the following networking sessions to establish stronger ties among participants.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n Around ten companies from Spain, France, Italy, UK and Australia have taken part in the ASW Barrier<\/strong> event, as well as representatives of the Armed forces from those countries, Portugal, Romania, and the NATO\u2019s Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE).<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n The ASW Barrier<\/strong> project has a multinational approach and aims to develop the anti-submarine warfare barrier capabilities across the Alliance, and it is supported by 11 countries: Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, the UK and the US. The SDI is sponsored by NATO\u2019s Maritime Unmanned Systems (MUS) initiative.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n Some of the main objectives of the ASW Barrier plan include from improving the anti-submarine warfare systems to going in depth in the fusion of different sensors information to facilitate decision-making as well as the use of marine unmanned systems.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n REP MUS 2021<\/strong><\/p><\/h3>\n\n\n\n REP MUS 21 consist of large-scale unmanned systems exercises in a multinational and cooperative environment where Academia, Armed forces and industry from different countries engage in technological experimentation activities and procedures and tactics for MUS in real-life operational scenarios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Navantia (the Spanish state-owned shipbuilding company) is showing at REP MUS 21 its USV Vendaval: the first aluminum boat USV \/ Unmanned Surface Vessel with autonomous navigation capacity, already in active operation in the Ceuta Port Authority (Spain). <\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n SAES is collaborating with Navantia in a variety of initiatives to develop the underwater sensor capabilities Viento Class USV, to be used on both civil and defence applications.<\/p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SAES is one of the Spanish companies taking part in the workshop of the ASW Barrier \u2013 Smart Defence Initiative, a multinational plan which aims to develop anti-submarine warfare barrier capabilities across the Alliance and supported by 11 countries, including Spain. SAES has taken part in the ASW Barrier workshop within the NATO\u2019s REP MUS … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1448,1433],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fairs-and-events-en","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/electronica-submarina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/electronica-submarina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/electronica-submarina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electronica-submarina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electronica-submarina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/electronica-submarina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28317,"href":"https:\/\/electronica-submarina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27799\/revisions\/28317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electronica-submarina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electronica-submarina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electronica-submarina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}