C & C developed UUV technology with U.S. Navy

History of C & C's AUVs

In 1994, C & C Technologies, Inc. began working on the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's survey UUV program.

Over the next five years, C & C integrated several survey sensors into the navy's two UUVs, which included multibeam bathymetry, subbottom classification, ADCP, forward-looking sonar, CTD, video, DGPS and high-speed radio link.

In 1998, C & C developed a small UUV for near-shore beach surveys.

In August 1999, C & C placed an order with Kongsberg Simrad for an autonomous underwater vehicle for worldwide survey operations.

C & C's AUV team worked with Simrad during development and the system was completed in November 2000. The 3,000 meter-rated vehicle was successfully used to perform several deepwater projects in the Gulf of Mexico.