Success for SAIC’s STB

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Science Applications International Corporation this week announced the successful completion of testing of a buoy developed to provide early warning detection of tsunamis.

(SAIC) this week announced the successful completion of testing of a buoy developed to provide early warning detection of tsunamis.

The SAIC tsunami buoy (STB) was deployed on October 25, 2006, approximately 200 nautical miles west of San Diego in 3,876m of water. The location is approximately 28 nautical miles from a National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami (DART) buoy that has been used in part to evaluate the performance of the STB.

The genesis of SAIC developing a tsunami warning capability began after the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and has continued to build and mature since that catastrophe.

With the goal of developing an end-to-end tsunami warning capability that can be integrated into international disaster warning systems, SAIC engineers determined that the cornerstone of this effort would be the development of a technically advanced, commercially available, deep-ocean sensor that could match the capabilities of the NOAA DART system that currently protects the coastal United States.

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