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Ultra supports Sonobuoy Test Facility upgrade in UK

22nd September 2020 - 16:14 GMT | by The Shephard News Team

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Ultra Electronics has secured a contract from QinetiQ to help replace the entire Sonobuoy Test Facility at the British Underwater Test & Evaluation Centre (BUTEC) in Scotland.

QinetiQ will provide COTS computer equipment including networking, data storage and installation.

Ultra will replace software-defined sonobuoy receivers, command function transmitters and a suite of analysis software for the ground station which provides control, monitoring, recording and analysis capabilities for the sonobuoy on test.

New user-friendly graphics and the reuse of seabed hardware to replace surface test equipment ‘will offer a real saving to the customer’, the company noted in a 22 September statement.

It added: ‘Not having to deploy equipment manually from a small boat means the new system will be safer and less time consuming to use.’

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