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Editorial ubsea security. I know we’ve only th completed 1/12 of the year to date, but if you’re looking for two words

Sthat will de? ne 2025, trust that those two words are ‘subsea security.’

As the world around us continues to spiral

Greensea IQ www.marinetechnologynews.com into a world of increasingly complex, esca-

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Justin Zuure ticularly for countries ringing the Baltic Sea.

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Asymetric threats – whether it take the form

John C. O’Malley jomalley@marinelink.com of swarms of relatively cheap, armed drones or the form of a commercial ship with an anchor and the intent to wreak havoc – will con-

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Gregory R. Trauthwein tinue to drive innovation in the name of monitoring, identifying and thwarting these threats trauthwein@marinelink.com on and under the world’s waterways.

This month, our subsea security expert David Strachan breaks down, starting on page 8,

Contributing Writers

Laurel Gallaudet the implications of the U.S. Navy’s early 2025 release of SBIR 25.1, which among several

Kevin Hardy

Celia Konowe subsea warfare topics was one for a novel kind of unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) –

Edward Lundquist a maritime expeditionary response crawler, a specialized UUV designed to operate on the

David Strachan ocean ? oor using legs, tracks, or wheels. Speci? cally, the Navy is seeking a small, compact

Production Manager crawler weighing no more than 150 pounds that is capable of conducting sustained opera-

Irina Vasilets vasilets@marinelink.com tions for six hours at depths of 600 meters or more, a push that underscores the Navy’s increasing commitment to subsea and seabed warfare (SSW).

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Next, Alisa Rainer writes at length on the world’s growing reliance of subsea infra- nicole@marinelink.com structure – and the risks that grow in tandem – in her report Securing the Deep: Business

Opportunities in Subsea Defense, starting on page 36.

Corporate Staff The impact of increased defense spending is touching all sectors of subsea, and in our

Manager, Marketing conversation with Kraken this month, COO Nat Spencer puts it neatly in perspective when

Mark O’Malley momalley@marinelink.com discussing the company’s SeaPower batteries: “The defense sector is pushing the bound-

Accounting aries of what’s possible. They’re asking, ‘How do we go further? How do we increase

Esther Rothenberger rothenberger@marinelink.com capability? How much energy can we ? t into a given space?,” particularly as the size and

Manager, IT Services number of AUVs continue to rise.

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