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Ultra Maritime Highlights Next Generation Naval Warfare Capabilities at AFCEA WEST 2025

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Ultra Maritime is showcasing a wide range of emerging and existing acoustic, anti-submarine warfare (ASW), unmanned maritime and radar capabilities at this week’s AFCEA WEST conference in San Diego, California. Innovation leadership and engineers from our U.S., UK and Canadian teams will be present for detailed discussions, presentations and hands-on examples of our game-changing capabilities, including:

Next Generation Sonobuoys

Ultra Maritime’s next generation SSQ-53, SSQ-62 and SSQ-36 sonobuoys are fully qualified per U.S. Navy standards. By updating the underlying technologies and improving the supply chain base, Ultra Maritime is positioned to provide sonobuoys at a production rate that meets the increasing global demand. While offering a full range of sonobuoys, Ultra Maritime is also the only manufacturer of G size sonobuoys, half-size sonobuoys used internationally, as well as sonobuoy receivers. This unique position allows Ultra Maritime to upgrade technologies on both sides of the sonobuoy to receiver link, enabling rapid deployment of technology upgrades such as improved protection for encrypted data links and increased number of data channels.

Acoustic Sensors

Ultra Maritime’s acoustic sensors provide integrated technologies and tactics to dominate the undersea domain. These systems can operate remotely, independently and persistently, with or without manned platforms, allowing our payloads to remain on station performing the critical ASW mission in the harshest environments.

Ultra Maritime Mission Pod – Containerized ASW

The Ultra Maritime Mission Pod design deploys their family of towed arrays, both ASW and torpedo defense, from the same winch and deployment system. This innovative automation and packaging technology make it possible to house and deploy various towed arrays from a 20-foot ISO container, enabling smaller manned and unmanned surface vessels to dramatically increase their anti-submarine warfare capabilities.

Surface Ship Torpedo Defense

Ultra Maritime is the global leader in providing torpedo defense solutions for allied navies. We are developing a first-of-its-kind layered torpedo defense, with both soft and hard kill capabilities. This next generation of torpedo defense is comprised of multiple strategies and systems working together to detect and neutralize incoming torpedo threats, ensuring the safety of naval vessels from torpedo attacks.

Unmanned System Payloads

Ultra Maritime will feature its solution for a small form factor radar that is for use on small or unmanned platforms based upon the proven and mature Next Generation Surface Search Radar (NGSSR). This radar solution will provide the ability for these vessels to share data across both manned and unmanned networks while providing surface search and other restricted mission capabilities.

Next Generation Surface Ship Radar

Next Generation Surface Search Radar (NGSSR) is the Navy’s first multi-mission navigation radar that enhances warfighting capabilities and safety of navigation. This radar can be reconfigured through software updates and is designed to support combat systems, surface search, safety of navigation, periscope detection and restricted missions. Ultra Maritime will highlight the enhanced capabilities on the horizon, to include modernized Periscope Detection and Discrimination (PDD).

Ultra Maritime Announces Modular, Automated, Containerized Anti-Submarine Warfare Mission Pod for Small Combatants and Autonomous Vessels

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ARLINGTON, Virginia – Ultra Maritime proudly announces a substantial advancement in towed array packaging technology that will enable smaller manned and unmanned surface vessels to greatly increase their anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capabilities. Following several years of internal investment and building on a rich legacy of sonar capabilities, the new Ultra Maritime Mission Pod has now cleared its Critical Design Review (CDR) and is being actively bid into worldwide opportunities. Visit the Ultra Maritime booth #1018 at the Surface Navy Association’s National Symposium this week to learn more.

This innovative design deploys Ultra Maritime’s family of towed arrays from the same winch and deployment system. The Mission Pod is a leapfrog in automation and packaging technology, making it possible to house and deploy those arrays from a 20-foot ISO container, thereby achieving genuine modularity of design where a towed array can be used as a roll-on, roll-off asset. This allows for ASW capabilities without the need for traditional large, expensive manned surface combatant platforms.

“The 20-foot containerized Mission Pod will play a significant role in countering both the North Atlantic and Western Pacific submarine threats, as well as other areas of operation, with an automated, flexible and scalable solution for any Navy,” said Carlo Zaffanella, President and CEO of Ultra Maritime. “With the significant cost of major combatants and the requisite large crews to man them, Ultra Maritime’s Mission Pod provides an affordable, distributed ASW capability that can be deployed on smaller, less expensive manned and unmanned ships.”

The Mission Pod is designed to meet NATO-ANEP 91 and 99, as well as relevant Det Norske Veria (DNV) interchangeability standards. The Mission Pod is designed for installation on current and future surface combatants, vessels of opportunity and unmanned platforms.

Ultra Maritime SNA 2025 Invite

Ultra Maritime Showcases Future Anti-Submarine Warfare Capabilities at the Surface Navy Association’s 2025 National Symposium

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Ultra Maritime is showcasing a wide range of emerging and existing anti-submarine warfare capabilities and other technologies for attendees at this week’s Surface Navy Association’s 2025 National Symposium in Arlington, Virginia.

Portfolio highlights will include the following capabilities:

Surface Ship Torpedo Defense

Experts will be on hand to discuss next generation torpedo defense, an area in which Ultra Maritime has invested to bring forward a first-of-its-kind layered torpedo defense with both soft and hard kill abilities. This solution is comprised of multiple strategies and systems working together to detect and neutralize incoming torpedo threats, ensuring the safety of naval vessels from torpedo attacks.

Acoustic Sensors

Ultra Maritime’s acoustic sensors provide integrated technologies and tactics to dominate the undersea domain. These systems can operate remotely, independently and persistently, with or without manned platforms, allowing our payloads to remain on station performing the critical ASW mission in the harshest environments.

Unmanned System Payloads

Ultra Maritime will feature its investment in next-generation navigational radar by way of a small form factor radar solution. Based upon the proven and mature Next Generation Surface Search Radar (NGSSR), Ultra Maritime has scaled this radar for use on small, unmanned platforms, giving the ability to share data across both manned and unmanned networks, while providing surface search and other classified mission capabilities.

Next Generation Surface Search Radar

Next Generation Surface Search Radar (NGSSR) is the Navy’s first multi-mission navigation radar that enhances warfighting capabilities and safety of navigation. This radar can be reconfigured through software updates and is designed to support combat systems, surface search, safety of navigation and periscope detection. Ultra Maritime will highlight the enhanced capabilities on the horizon, to include modernized Periscope Detection and Discrimination (PDD), improved Fault Detection Fault Isolation (FDFI) to improve maintainability, integration with combat systems and Advanced Training Domain (ATD). 

WHEN: Jan. 14-16, 2025

WHERE: Booth 1018, Hyatt Regency Cystal City

MEDIA CONTACT: Danielle Vencak, danielle.vencak@umaritime.com

U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan Announces First-of-Its-Kind Partnership between Ultra Maritime and Bharat Dynamics Limited on the Co-Production of U.S. Sonobuoys

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COLUMBIA CITY, Ind. – During a visit to Delhi, India, on Jan. 6, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan shared news that the White House is “welcoming a new initiative between Ultra Maritime and Bharat Dynamics Limited that will enhance undersea domain awareness through a first-of-its-kind partnership on the co-production of U.S. sonobuoys.”

Ultra Maritime, a U.S.-based world-leader in the design and production of undersea warfare capabilities, has partnered with Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL), an Indian Defence Public Sector Undertaking, to supply and manufacture sonobuoys for the Indian Navy to U.S. Navy standards, with production split across the U.S. and India, in accordance with “Make in India” principles.

In line with the U.S.-India Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (ICET) launched in May 2022, the Ultra Maritime and BDL teams will also pursue new sonobuoy technologies to optimize their acoustic performance in the unique environment of the Indian Ocean, enabling wide area search through bespoke multi-static active solutions.

“The announcement today by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan reflects Ultra Maritime’s commitment to the Indian Navy in partnering with Bharat Dynamics Limited for production and delivery of world-class sonobuoys, and our resolute commitment to continue to develop forward leaning solutions to unique undersea challenges,” said Ultra Maritime CEO Carlo Zaffanella.

“Bharat Dynamics Limited is completely aligned with the Indian Navy to meet the operational demand for Make in India sonobuoys and is committed to standing up joint production with Ultra Maritime in Vishakhapatnam,” added Chairman of BDL Commodore (ret) A. Madhavarao. “This initiative highlights the strategic importance of U.S.-Indian defense industry cooperation and our ability to jointly move forward with urgency to enhance global security.”

“Having experienced the Indian Navy’s Anti-Submarine Warfare prowess firsthand during Indian Malabar naval exercises in the past, it is an honor today to support both the U.S. Navy and Indian Navy in maintaining Undersea Domian Awareness in the Indian Ocean theater through the Make in India sonobuoy initiative,” said Rear Admiral USN (ret) Mark Kenny, Ultra Maritime Senior Vice President for Strategy and Business Development. “The Ultra Maritime sonobuoys co-produced in India are interchangeable and interoperable between U.S. Navy, Indian Navy and allied P-8, MH-60R and the MQ-9B Sea Guardian aircraft.”