Fiscal Year	2008
Division	Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department	Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Investigator(s)	Healey, Anthony J.
Sponsor	U.S. Special Operations Command (Joint)
Summary	The objective of this research is to support initial field testing of the USSOCOM Blue Light Special (BLS) underwater communications system in Monterey Bay. Using a REMUS autonomous underwater vehicle, NPS will measure the environmental characteristics in the BLS system's operating area to assess the optical properties of the surrounding seawater. NPS will then conduct several underwater communications experiments, experiments between a fixed location and a mobile platform to measure BLS data rate as a function of range and orientation. Finally, NPS will produce a detailed after action report summarizing the results of these experiments.
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