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#Arctic Ocean | Development

#Polar Portal | Danish Research Institution

#Arctic NOAA | Arctic Program

#Nist | Arctic Research

#Global Change | MIT

#Data Cosmos | MultiSatellite Data Platform | Open Cosmos

#Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) | Climate, environmental, and earth system research

#Awi | Alfred Wegener Institute

#General Oceanics | Oceanographic and Environmental Research and Monitoring Equipment

#Mbari Ctd Rosette | MBARI | Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

#Whoi Rosette Sampler | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

#Tos Oceanography | Arctic Ocean Water Mass Structure and Circulation

#Ideo Columbia Arctic Rosette | Columbia Climate School

#Hidex | Analysis equipment

#Arctic Council | Intergovernmental forum

#Santa Cruz UC | Biology

#UUNL | Utrecht University

#Severe Weather | Weather patterns

#EEA | European Environment Agency

#Orbital EOS | Oil Spill Detection Identification Measurement | Open Cosmos

#Quasar | Climate Change Monitoring | Open Cosmos

#WeatherGov | National Wheather Service

#FleetScience | Research

#Climate4you | Observing average global air temperature change | Tide gauges along coasts | Ocean warming | Changes in atmospheric CO2

#Windy | Airport Wheather Forecast

#NCEI | National Centers for Environmental Information

#EPAGov | Environmental Protection Agency

#Earth Observatory | NASA

#Earth System Model | MIT

#SeaDataCloud | Temperature and Salinity historical data

#Global sea levels rising | Water from melting ice sheets and glaciers increasing | Expansion of seawater as it warms | NASA sea level data

#Salinity Ocean Sciences | NASA

#Barents Blue project | Horisont Energi | Port of Rotterdam | Barents Sea | Arctic Ocean

#Neste | Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAS) | Renewable diesel | Renewable feedstock for polymers and chemicals | Developing chemical recycling to combat the plastic waste challenge | Accelerating shifting to circular economy | Creating solutions for migitating climate change

#Ambri | Batteries for clean energy | Liquid Metal Battery | Self heating and regulating | Calcium and antimony as material | Rapid deployment | Scalable | Internal operating temperature 500˚ C | Desert | Arctic | Antarctic | Third Pole | Shipped cells inactive at ambient temperature | Heaters bringing cells to operating temperature | No degradation, air conditioning, replaceable nor any serviceable components | MIT | GroupSadoway Lab | Boston Metal

#High seas treaty | International Union for Conservation of Nature | Biodiversity protection | International Seabed Authority | Marine environment threats pollution from coastal infrastructure and dumping | Marine protected areas

#Arctic amplification | Finnish Meteorological Institute | Climate change | Arctic region | Arctic Circle | Carbon Brief | Barents sea | Temperature trends | Models | Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

#AST Space Mobile | AST n Science | Building space based cellular broadband network to be accessible by standard smartphones | 4G/5G connectivity everywhere on the planet | Automatic roaming from land networks to a space network | Connectivity anywhere without having to invest in expensive, specialized hardware

#ICEYE | Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) | Maritime monitoring

#General Atomics | Air to Air Laser Communication System | Crosslinks from aircraft to other platforms such as unmanned aircraft, maritime vessels, and space systems

#Defense Department | Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies

#Norway | NATO | Poseidon8 | P8 to bring a drone that can be released from the internal bay, fly its own surveillance missions, then return and be caught back to the bay

#SatelIoT | IoT connectivity over standard 5G NB-IoT

#Wartsila | Marine autonomy solutions

#Intel | Kapoho Point Board | Four Loihi 2 chips on its top side | Four on its underside | Up to a million neurons | Up to a billion synapses | Up to 8 million variables | Up to 1000× better energy efficiency than a state of the art CPU solver | Stackable up to eight boards | Expansion port on the board | Four boards getting up to 32 million neurons | Drones | Robotics | Gesture recognition | Scene understanding | Smell identification | Solving optimization problems | Research

#Intel | Neuromorphic computing | Biological neural computation | New algorithmic approaches | Emulating human brain interactions | Spiking neural networks (SNNs) | Simulating natural learning | Dynamically remapping neural networks | Making decisions in response to learned patterns over time | Powering autonomous AI solutions | Supporting energy efficiency and continuous learning | Sensing | Robotics | Healthcare | Large scale AI applications

#SpaceX | Satellite to cellular service

#High North Center | Nord university | News

#Greenland Institute of Natural Resources | Arctic whales facing climate threat | Narwhals | Belugas | Bowheads | Tagging | Swallowed pill sensors | Tracking temperature changes with sensors in whale stomach | Recording echolocation sounds narwhals use to find prey

#ArCeph | Tracking impacts of climate change in Arctic marine ecosystems through cephalopod diversity and life histories

#Acoustical Society of America | Killer whales spending more time in the Arctic Ocean | Underwater microphones

#Polar Bears International | Polar bears and Arctic sea ice research

#Japan Times | Turkey parliament voted to approve Finland membership in NATO | Finland brings another Arctic nation into the fold of the alliance | Its military is trained for cold weather | Important asset at a time when the High North is gaining in strategic importance | Increased presence by Russia and China in Arctic

#DoD | Arctic Strategy | New era of strategic competition | Avenue for great power competition and aggression | Geopolitical developments, especially Russia invasion of Ukraine and Finland joining NATO | U.S. now sees the region as a corridor between the Indo Pacific and European theaters of strategic engagement | Increased focus on China as a strategic competitor in the Arctic | China recent efforts to design and construct a nuclear powered science icebreaker | Technology test bed for nuclear aircraft carriers

#Aberystwyth University | Remote sensing of glacier mass balance

#G7 | Building network of undersea communication cables to serve developing and emerging countries

#Conservation X Labs | Sentinel Smart Camera | AI-enabled field monitoring system | Helping better understand and protect wildlife and the people with it in the field | Hardware and software base of a fully-integrated AI camera platform for wildlife conservation and field research | Appliying AI to modern sensors and connectivity to deploy a faster, longer-running, more effective option straight out of the box | Running onboard detection algorithms | Autonomously detecting and addressing threats on frontlines of biodiversity crisis | Detecting poaching and wildlife trafficking, invasive species, and endangered species | Giving conservationists real-time information on events in the wild and ability to respond to threats through smart, data-driven decisions

#Norway | Arctic and sub-Arctic sea floor mining | Opening area roughly the size of Germany to deep-sea mining | Norwegian Sea | Barents Sea | Up to 4,000m deep | Polymetallic nodules, containing high concentrations of copper, nickel, cobalt

#International Seabed Authority | Rules for seafloor mining

#European Academy of Sciences | Warned of the catastrophic consequences of deep sea mining

#Advanced Navigation | Inertial measurement unit (IMU) | Heading reference system (AHRS) | Acoustic navigation | AI-based acoustic processing techniques | Subsea transponder | Sidney, Australia

#Yamaha Marine | 450 hp hydrogen-powered V-8 outboard | Three 6-foot-long cylindrical-shaped hydrogen fuel tanks | H2 machine operates by using hydrogen in its combustion chambers | H2 tanks are positioned low and centrally to enhance stability | H2 tanks size demands rethinking of future boat designs, hulls specifically tailored for hydrogen storage | Hydrogen storage system adds considerable weight to vessel | Volumetric energy density of hydrogen is lower, requiring larger tanks | Partners: Roush Performance, Regulator Marine

#Feadship | Hydrogen-cell superyacht | Double-walled cryogenic tank in dedicated room | 4 tons of hydrogen | Cruising protected marine zones.| Cryogenic storage of liquefied hydrogen in superyacht interior | No regulations for hydrogen storage and fuel-cell systems on superyacht

#Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) | Developing international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution | Raising awareness about the serious impacts of plastic pollution on both humans and nature | Global bans and phase-outs of the most harmful and problematic plastic products and chemicals | Global product design requirements to ensure all plastic produced is safe to reuse and recycle as part of global non-toxic circular economy

#Tampere University | Pneumatic touchpad | Soft touchpad sensing force, area and location of contact without electricity | Device utilises pneumatic channels | Can be used in environments such as MRI machines | Soft robots | Rehabilitation aids | Touchpad does not need electricity | It uses pneumatic channels embedded in the device for detection | Made entirely of soft silicone | 32 channels that adapt to touch | Precise enough to recognise handwritten letters | Recognizes multiple simultaneous touches | Ideal for use in devices such as MRI machines | If cancer tumours are found during MRI scan, pneumatic robot can take biopsy while patient is being scanned | Pneumatic device can be used in strong radiation or conditions where even small spark of electricity would cause serious hazard

#Allen Institute for Artifical Intelligence | AI for the Environment | Robot planning precise action points to perform tasks accurately and reliably | Vision Language Model (VLM) controlling robot behavior | Introducing automatic synthetic data generation pipeline | Instruction-tuning VLM to robotic domains and needs | Predicting image keypoint affordances given language instructions | RGB image rendered from procedurally generated 3D scene | Computing spatial relations from camera perspective | Generating affordances by sampling points within object masks and object-surface intersections | Instruction-point pairs fine-tune language model | RoboPoint predicts 2D action points from image and instruction, which are projected into 3D using depth map | Robot navigates to these 3D targets with motion planner | Combining object and space reference data with VQA and object detection data | Leveraging spatial reasoning, object detection, and affordance prediction from diverse sources | Enabling to generalize combinatorially.| Synthetic dataset used to teach RoboPoint relational object reference and free space reference | Red and ground boxes as visual prompts to indicate reference objects | Cyan dots as visualized ground truth | NVIDIA | | Universidad Catolica San Pablo | University of Washington

#Astera Labs | Intelligent Connectivity Platform | High-speed connectivity integrated circuits (ICs), modules, boards | Connectivity System Management and Optimization Software | Providing hyperscaler customers ability to deploy and operate high-performance AI and cloud infrastructure | Software-defined IC architecture | Distributed microcontrollers and sensors | Real-time link and device monitoring | Smart Fabric Switches | PCIe 6 fabric switch | Delivering maximum predictable performance to increase GPU utilization | Protocol and performance optimization for increased data transfer efficiency | Real-time telemetry data | Built-in protocol analyzer with link state history and timestamps | Full non-destructive eye scan for RX Lane margining | Self-test features to minimize link downtime and accelerate fault isolation | AI scale-up (GPU-to-GPU) | AI clusters | Generative AI applications | Nvidia supplier

#EIDEL | Developing instruments and systems for space | Participates development of CCSDS Unified Space Link Protocol

#CHC Navigation | Solutions for mapping, navigation, and positioning | GNSS systems | LiDAR

#Wilhelmsen | Smart Rope | Measuring unit embedded within Timm Master rope | Making mooring operations safer and more efficient | Improving longevity for ropes | Unit transmits key tension, time and temperature information via wireless communication to command module on bridge | New mooring lines can be ordered and delivered when needed, not based on arbitrary schedules | Bridge sees tension in each of their mooring lines via app | Reduced life span if mooring ropes are used to manoeuvre out of port | Lack of insight into rope usage leads to inefficient replenishment | Visual inspections are not sufficient to determine if ropes are deteriorating faster than expected

#Submarinecablemap.com | Submarine Cable Map

#VORAGO | Radiation hardened and radiation tolerant microcontrollers and microprocessors | High-volume manufacturing to harden commercially designed semiconductor component | Empowers mission success | Radiation-hardened ICs that excel in extreme environments | ARM | Texas Instruments | Brainchip | Custom hardware and firmware solutions tailored to withstand extreme environments | Ensuring that mission-critical components remain resilient | Custom solutions, armed with space-grade electronics and an ARM Cortex microcontrollers | International Space Station: dies measuring the effects of protons and cosmic rays | Satelites: devices utilized in Department of Defense Space Test Program (STP) missions | CubeSats: ARM microvontroller | Semiconductor components and solutions for extreme temperature environments up to +200°C

#Saronic | Port Alpha | Shipyard designed to build autonomous ships for hybrid fleet | Investors: General Catalyst, a16z, Caffeinated Capital, 8VC | Delivering new classes of unmanned ships | U.S. Navydeclared need for hybrid fleet which integrates significant number of unmanned systems operating alongside manned platforms

#MemryX | Edge accelerated AI System software | SDK APIs for efficient AI processing | Hardware | Compile AI model(s) making executable file | PCIe or USB interface | x86, ARM, RISC-V processors | Windows, Linux operating systems

#GeorgePoveromo | Radar for Marlin

#RokMax | Rods, reels, lures, tackle and other gear for marlin fishing

#AST Space Mobile | AST n Science | Building space based cellular broadband network to be accessible by standard smartphones | 4G/5G connectivity everywhere on the planet | Automatic roaming from land networks to a space network | Connectivity anywhere without having to invest in expensive, specialized hardware

#NVidia | Dexterous robot development | Manipulating objects with precision, adaptability, and efficiency | Fine motor control, coordination, ability to handle a wide range of tasks, often in unstructured environments | Key aspects of robot dexterity include grip, manipulation, tactile sensitivity, agility, and coordination | Robot dexterity fevelopment for manufacturing, healthcare, logistics | Dexterity enabling automation in tasks that traditionally require human-like precision

#e-con Systems | Camera solutions for NVIDIA platforms | Full HD Global Shutter Camera for Jetson AGX Orin | Jetson AGX Orin: 64GB module, 275 TOPS with power configurable 15W and 60W | Multiple 4k ultra-lowlight camera for NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin | Global shutter | Rolling shutter | Autofocus and fixed focus | High resolution and frame rate | High dynamic range | High sensitivity in both visible and NIR regions | Superior color reproduction | MIPI and GMSL2 interfaces | Camera SDK configured to support Isaac SDK | Multi-camera support | NVIDIA Isaac GEMs ROS: GPU-accelerated packages for ROS2 application | Isaac ROS GEMs help to assess camera position with regard to its starting point | Isaac ROS GEMs empower robotic applications to maneuver and navigate through complicated environments | Installing ROS 2 requires Ubuntu 20.04 | Board cameras | USB 3.0 cameras | Autonomous mobile robots, autonomous shopping

#Viasat | Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM) | Mission led by Space Norway subsidiary Heosat |.ASBM-1 and ASBM-2 sstellites host GX10A and GX10B Ka-band payloads | Arctic has rapidly growing connectivity demand | Broadband to civilian, government and military users in Arctic | Viasat expanding its broadband capacity with five Ka-band satellites under construction

#Space Norway | ASBM satellites launched by Viasat major step closer to providing broadband to civilian, government and military users in Arctic

#Blue Atlas Robotics | Self-operating service robot that performs underwater surveys | Shared data platform collecting data from selected Nordic vendors of airborne and subsea drone systems | Sentinus 2 robot live-streamed high-quality underwater data during subsea surveillance operation using 5G in controller unit | Smultaneous aerial streams, enabling comprehensive surveillance solution that covered both above and below water | With minimal equipment, mission preparation becomes effortless, offering greater flexibility | Vision-lock to target for efficient mission ensuring the best quality of data | Point clouds | 3D models | Underwater assets managrment | Visual inspection outputs for vessel bottoms | In-water propeller inspections | Sea chest inspections | Inspecting bow thrusters

#Skyhawk | Wireless Vessel Monitoring System | 915 MHz RF tech | Verizon IoT, | Over-the-air updates | Wake-on-radio receiver technology | Decentralized architecture | Any Oversea hub can detect RF communications from any Oversea sensor | Communications relayed via cellular modem to Skyhawk servers.| Each sensor and hub designed to operate for years on single set of AA batteries | Oversea app and airtime subscription required

#uWare Robotics | Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs)

#SubC Imaging | Integrated cameras, software, and remote solutions for deep-sea research

#Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KDA) | Surveillance of vessels in the Arctic Regions of Norway (NAVAREA XIX) | Investing to space industry

#Norwegian Institute of Marine Research | Arctic Sea research

#Norwegian Polar Institute | Icebreaking research vessel Kronprins Haakon | Arctic Sea research

#University of Tromso | Tromso Forskningstiftelse | Arctic Sea research

#UK Marine Biological Association | Marine heat waves research

#Argo | Collecting information from inside the ocean using a fleet of robotic instruments that drift with the ocean currents and move up and down between the surface and a mid water level | Floats (instruments) spend almost all their life below the surface | Observing ocean data related to climate change

#Simrad | Marine Chartplotters | Autopilots | Radar | Beam sharpening technology | ZoneTrack | Halo Dangerous Target Alerts | Bird+ Mode

#Norwegian Ocean Observation Laboratory (OCEANLAB / HAVLAB)

#WWF | ArcNet | Arctic blue corridors initiative | Global Arctic Programme

#OndoSense | Radar distance sensor | Sensor software: integrated into control system or used for independent quality monitoring | Object detection | Distance measurement | Position control | Agriculture: reliable height control of the field sprayer | Mining industry | Transport & Logistics | Shipping & Offshore | Mechanical and plant engineering | Metal and steel industry | Energy sector | Harsh industrial environments | Dust & smoke: no influence | Rain & snow: no influence | Radar frequency: 122GHz | Opening angle: ±3° | Measuring range: 0.3 – 40 m | Measuring rate: up to 100Hz | Output rate: up to 10 ms / 100 Hz | Measurement accuracy; up to ±1mm | Measurement precision: ±1mm | Communication protocol: RS485; Profinet, other interfaces via gateway | Switching output: 3x push-pull (PNP/NPN) | Analogue output: Current interface (4 – 20 mA) | Protection class: IP67

#Untether AI | Accelerating AI inference | PCI-Express form factor and power envelope | Over 2 PetaOps per card | Accelerator card | AI chip | Intel backef | Toronto, Canada

#Orca AI | FleetView for fleet operators and management | SeaPod | Artificial intelligence-based maritime navigation assistant, watchkeeper | Automated object detection and prioritization | All marine object detection | Curbing marine mammal strikes | Reducing whale mortality rates

#OLogic | Robotics | Pumpkin Pi i350 EVK | Edge AI platform | Designed for mainstream AI + IoT applications | Vision and voice edge processing | Facial, object, gesture, motion recognition | LPR, voice activation and speed recognition | Sound isolation, bio-tech and biometric measurements

#Field AI | Autonomous systems for machines deployed to fields | Off-road autonomy

#NavVis | Reality capture technology | Tools for creating photorealistic digital twins of physical environments | Enhancing productivity in surveying and construction | Enablinging faster and more accurate spatial data collection and analysis | Allinq Digital used NavVis VLX and automatic modeling tools to decrease Schiphol airport to scan for BIM | BOND Construction scanning and modeling facilities across Massachusetts, USA, including airports, cruise terminals, warehouses | Four people scanned terminal in five working days | Point cloud cleaned and registered in under three days | Modelers work remotely through NavVis IVION | Hiding walls and ceilings toggles off visual clutter so you can focus on equipment, layouts, and assets | Point cloud cleanup | Georeferenced model alignment: NavVis IVION recognizes coordinate systems in IFC files and positions models automatically | TopoDOT integration: convert NavVis panoramas to IPRJ files

#Duatic | Rugged, weatherproof robotic arm | Actuator architecture | Quasi-direct, water-resistant, actively-cooled drive modules with integrated electronics | Maximum Payload: 12 kg | Continuous Payload: 6 kg | Reachability: 1.0 m | Total Weight: 9.2 kg | End Effector Speed: 10 m/s | Pose Repeatability:< 1 mm | Degrees of Freedom: 6 | Power Input: 48 V | Protection: IP66 | Joint Torque Accuracy (all): ± 0.5 Nm

#ARM Institute | Robotics Manufacturing Hub | Training for robotics careers | Effort to build a national repository for AI-based manufacturing resources | Accelerating Adoption of Robotics & AI to Increase U.S. manufacturing competitiveness | Enabling innovations in robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), autonomy, and workforce development | 450+ member organizations

#Cummins | Microgrids | Providing flexible autonomous power solutions | Locally-controlled power sources that can integrate multiple energy resources such as diesel, natural gas, wind or solar power | When traditional power grid goes out, microgrid can immediately switch to backup generators and batteries | Resiliency: When one energy source fails, microgrids ensure continuous power | Decarbonization: Microgrids can incorporate renewable energy sources | Greenhouses | Healthcare facilities | Remote communities and islands

#GAM | Precision mechanical manufacturer of drive solutions used in automation technology | Engineering solutions for demanding environments | Robotic gearboxes | Servo-gearboxes | Precision spiral bevel gearboxes | Rack and pinion | Servo-couplings | GPL Robotic Planetary | GCL Cycloidal | GSL Strain Wave | Linear Mount Products for Cartesian Robots | Backlash <0.1 arcmin (6 arcsec) of gearbox, no adjustment necessary | Operation temperatures -40°C to 70°C (-40°F to 160°F) | 20,000 hours operational life | Torque 3500 Nm (31,000 in-lb)

#Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) | Advanced radar system | Dynamic, three-dimensional view of Earth | NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite | Detecting land and ice surfaces movement down to centimeter | Mission will help protect communities | Actionable information to disaster response | ISRO Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) rocket | 464 miles (747 kilometers) above Earth | GSLV first mission to Sun-synchronous polar orbit | Two radar instruments: L-band system and S-band system | Monitoring planet land- and ice-covered surfaces twice every 12 days, including polar Southern Hemisphere | Helping researchers assess how forests, wetlands, agricultural areas, and permafrost change over time | Seeing through clouds | Monitoring planet surface during storms, in darkness and light | 39-foot (12-meter) radar antenna reflector | Mission managed by Caltech | NASA JPL leads U.S. component of project providing mission L-band SAR | NASA provides radar reflector antenna, deployable boom, high-rate communication subsystem for science data, GPS receivers, solid-state recorder, and payload data subsystem | ISRO provides mission S-band SAR instrument and calibrates, processes data , develops science algorithms | U R Rao Satellite Centre in Bengaluru leads ISRO components and provides spacecraft bus | Launch vehicle by ISRO Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre | Launch services by ISRO Satish Dhawan Space Centre | Satellite operations by ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network | National Remote Sensing Centre in Hyderabad is responsible for S-band data reception, operational products generation, and dissemination

#Davie | Designer and builder of specialist, mission-critical ships such as icebreakers | Began construction of Polar Max icebreaker | Industrial collaboration between Canadian-controlled facilities in Helsinki, Finland and Levis, Canada | Rapid: Construction: five months after contract signature | Disciplined: Fixed-price contract | Le Groupe ALMACO Canadian subsidiary of ALMACO Group, will deliver major outfitting contract for Polar Max | Modular cabin factory in Québec | Inocea, Davie parent group | Polar Max project will deliver advanced vessels for the Canadian Coast Guard

#Inocea | Davie parent group

#ALMACO Group | Deliverinf major outfitting contract for Polar Max icebraker

#Helsinki Shipyard | Design and construction of icebreaking and high ice-class vessels for demanding and harsh environments | First LNG-powered icebreaker in the world | Ice breaker hull philosophy: vessel features oblique design with asymmetric hull and three azimuthing propulsors | Icebreaking arctic tanker | Double Acting Ship | Arctic container vessel

#Rauma Marine Constructions | US-based Bollinger leading the consortium to deliver icebreakers for the American Coast GuardSeaspan Shipyards | Aker Arctic | Rauma Marine Constructions | American Coast Guard

#Aker Arctic | US-based Bollinger leading the consortium to deliver icebreakers for the American Coast Guard | Seaspan Shipyards | Aker Arctic | Rauma Marine Constructions | American Coast Guard

#Seaspan Shipyards | US-based Bollinger leading.the consortium to deliver icebreakers for the American Coast Guard | Seaspan Shipyards | Aker Arctic | Rauma Marine Constructions | American Coast Guard

#Bollinger Shipyards US-based Bollinger leading the consortium to deliver icebreakers for the American Coast Guard | Seaspan Shipyards | Aker Arctic | Rauma Marine Constructions | American Coast Guard

#Export-Import Bank of the United States | The official export credit agency of the United States | Supporting American job creation, prosperity and security through exporting | Issuing letters of interest for over $2.2 billion in financing for critical mineral projects | Supply Chain Resiliency Initiative (SCRI) to help secure supply chains of critical minerals and rare earth elements for U.S. businesses | Maintaining access to critical materials to secure U.S. jobs in sectors like battery, automobile, and semiconductor manufacturing | SCRI provides financing for international projects with signed long-term off-take contracts with U.S. companies, providing these U.S. companies with access to critical minerals from partner countries | SCRI: EXIM financing is tied to import authority and the financed amount depends on the amount of the off-take contract between the foreign project and the U.S. importer | Off-take agreements ensure that EXIM financing for critical minerals projects benefits American companies and workers | For U.S. domestic production in critical minerals and rare earth elements, EXIM can provide financing through Make More in America Initiative (MMIA) | SCRI: project must have signed off-take contracts that will result in the critical minerals and rare earth elements output being utilized in the United States, for products that are manufactured in the United States

#Ocean Autonomy Cluster | Hub for expertise on ocean autonomy

#Marine AI | AI-driven autonomy platform | Port operations | Vessel control | Enabling vessels to navigate independently,avoiding obstacles | Vision system enhancing object detection, classification, and recognition | Situational awareness system | Software suite optimised for small remotely operated USVs | NOMARS program: USX-1 vessel Defiant with comprehensive situational awareness, strategic route optimisation, tactical path routing and obstacle avoidance capability | CETUS project: Extra-Large Uncrewed Underwater Vessel (XLUUV) named XV Excalibur, uncrewed submersible, three-dimensional obstacle avoidance

#Omega | Ocean exploration with Omega watch | Water resistant: minimum depth of 30 bar (300 m/1000 ft) depending on model | Helium valve: prevents He molecules, which expand during decompression, from popping crystal face and caseback of watch | Unidirectional rotating bezel: preventing divers from accidentally rotating it wrong way and miscalculating dive time | Display: luminescent hands, indexes and dot | Shock and rack resistant: exploring caves, shipwrecks and reefs | Extendable bracelet: making extra room for thickness of diving suit | Antimagnetic: resisting forces from electronic devices | Pushers that work perfectly underwater | Official Timing Partner of the U.S. Olympic Team | Since 1932 brought its renowned precision, expertise, and technical innovation to Olympic Games, separating the margins between gold, silver, and bronze, and serving each athlete during their career-defining moments

#Frosta Baten | Sustainable fjord transport project between Trondheim and Frosta | Electric hydrofoil boat |.Energy-efficient and emission-free travel experience | Login Group: initiator and owner of the company | Norwegian Drone Industry: communication, security and surveillance | Trondheim Port: facilitates the quay in Trondheim | NTNU: automation of customer/user interfaces | Maritime Robotics: autonomy functions and communication | Boreal: project manager and operator of the connection during the project period | Supercharge: charging with own energy production in Trondheim | WTW - ticketing and route information | Frosta Brygge: partnerTrøndelag County Council: partner

#Deep Manufacturing | Rapid production of large, high-integrity metal components | Operating 20 Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) systems | WAAM builds components layer by layer, using an electric arc to melt wire feedstock |.Building new generation of subsea human habitats | Producing large, mission-critical metal components for energy, maritime, aerospace and defence customers | Digitally Enabled Efficient Propeller (D.E.E.P) project | Additive manufacturing (AM) processes, integrated with digital twin technology | Transforming propellers from passive hardware into smart, cyber-physical systems capable of monitoring their performance throughout their operational life | Manufactuung large and ultra large-scale component parts | Single-arm production volume is up to 2.8 metres in diameter, 3.2 metres in height | Multi-arm production volume, through revolutionary HexBot, is up to 6.2 metres in diameter, 3.2 metres in height | Producing low volumes of large-scale metal component parts, including defence, maritime, offshore and other energy sectors | DEEP Manufacturing Advanced Manufacturing Centre of Excellence in Bristol, UK | Led by Enki Marine Ltd | Stone Marine Propulsion (design and market validation) | TWI (materials testing and manufacturing processes) | DEEP Manufacturing Ltd (manufacturing processes and production scaling | Authentise (digital thread and AI-driven monitoring) | ASTM International (standardisation and certification) | Newcastle University (hydrodynamic modelling and validation)

#NVIDIA | GPU Deep Learning | GPU acting as the brain of computing | Robots and self driving cars can perceive and unferstand the world | Accelerating the entire AI workflow | AI agents designed to reason, plan, and act | Conversational AI: multilingual speech and translation AI | Vision AI: multimodal real-time insights | AI factories: manufacturing intelligence at scale | Purpose-built AI factories | AI life-cycle | Humanoid robotics research and development platform | Machine Learning | Neural networks | Natural language processing | Speech recognition | Recommender systems | Biomedical image segmentation | Object detection | Image classification | Reinforcement learning

#Arctic Space Centre | Arctic warming up to four times greater than the rest of the planet | Space-based technologies and services can help monitor and mitigate climate change | Simonetta Cheli, ESA Director of Earth Observation | Tromso: home to mission control for the Arctic Weather Satellite (AWS) | Arctic Council Secretariat | Norwegian Polar Institute | ESA Arctic PhiLab | ESA Business Incubation Centre | R&D institutes: marine biotechnology, medicine, space weather and sustainability | Norwegian Space Agency (NOSA) | Earth observation | Navigation | Telecommunications | Norway takes part in Copernicus and Galileo through an addition to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

#Pussers Rum | Night Watch | Blackstrap Rum | Crafted for those who appreciate depth, richness, and authenticity | Blends classic Guyanese rum—including distillate from vintage wooden pot stills—with Blackstrap Rum distilled in the U.S. using premium Louisiana blackstrap molasses, known for producing some of the richest flavor profiles in the category | Night Watch captures the mystery, strength, and endurance of naval tradition, delivering a layered flavor built for sipping, mixing, and exploring

#Aether Nordic | Specializing in satellite-independent navigation systems for maritime vessels

#Garmin | Radar | Autopilot | Plotter | Echo sounder | 4K resolution touchscreen chartplotter | Deep-water scrolling sonar | On Deck Smart Boat System | SurroundView

#Candela | Designing and manufacturing the commercially available electric hydrofoil craft | Actively stabilized, computer-controlled C-FOIL system | Highly efficient direct-drive C-Pod motor family | Full carbon fiber design | Placing highly efficient permanent magnet motors in a pod beneath water eliminates the need for a mechanical transmission | Counter-rotating propellers are driven directly by motors, improving efficiency, reducing noise, and minimizing maintenance | Electric pod motor designed for high-speed foiling craft | Pod is seawater-cooled | C-Pod is fully electric and features a direct-drive system with no gears or transmission | Sealed motors require no oil or fluid changes, ensuring a truly hassle-free, low-cost operation over time | Flight controller powers electric hydrofoil boat | Submerged active hydrofoils lift hull out of water | Smart sensors and flight control software automatically adjust for a smooth, stable ride | Made from ultra-strong multiaxial carbon fiber, hydrofoils withstand impacts from floating debris | Lithium-ion batteries | Motors directly drive propellers | C-Pod MAX units in P-12 provide a combined 320 kW for takeoff | C-8 motor outputs approximately 80 kW | Counter-rotating propellers, the second propeller counteracts generating additional forward thrust instead of letting energy dissipate

#SmartGyro | Gyro stabilization technology company | Smartgyro stabilizers effectively reduce boat roll through force created by spinning of flywheel inside vacuum-enclosed sphere, which is then transferred into hull structure to counteract wave motion | Gyroscope is spinning wheel (flywheel) or disk that maintains its orientation and resists changes in its axis of rotation | Gyroscopic effect | The law of conservation of angular momentum | Precession motion | Moment of inertia | Gyro stabilizers are mounted in such a way that force that disturbs axis of orientation of flywheel is (mainly) force caused by rolling | When vessel rolls due to wave motion, on-board gyroscope responds by generating forces that oppose these movements | Antiroll effect can be increased by installing more gyros | Precession motion must always be carefully controlled, continuously adjusting and synchronizing its amplitude and its time correlation with incoming sea waves | Motion control system takes care of this important task by means of hardware computing platform, and series of sensors distributed on different parts of machine | Based on data acquired by sensors, (including boat state - roll, pitch and precession rotation angle), algorithms precisely regulate braking effect of hydraulic pistons mounted on side of sphere containing flywheel, and ultimately, synchronize precession motion with rolling wave | Control system is capable of responding to different, ever changing sea conditions rapidly, and maximum antiroll torque is always generated, whatever sea state | Smartgyro modular approach splits stabilizer into smaller, easy-to-handle components | Modular design allows for opening of sphere containing flywheel, to inspect, extract or replace internal components

#Seakeeper | Marine motion control technology | Anti-roll gyro | No outside appendages | Flywheel spins at speeds up to 557 miles per hour generating enough force to stop a boat from rolling | Vacuum encapsulation enables flywheel to spin roughly three times faster, cuts flywheel weight by two-thirds, and halves power requirements | Critical components (flywheel, bearings, and motor) are sealed in a vacuum | Cooling system removes heat from within vacuum enclosure and dissipates it through a glycol/seawater combination | Active control works as smart technology, automatically gauging sea state and reacting instantaneously | Inside vacuum encapsulation, flywheel spins at speeds of up to 9,750 rpm | When boat rolls, gyro tilts fore and aft (precesses), producing powerful gyroscopic torque to port and starboard that counteracts boat roll | Seakeeper 40: yachts 85 feet and up (up to 115 tons), field replaceable bearings (FRB) | Seakeeper 26: vessels ~70-85 feet, up to ~75 tons | Seakeeper 18: crafted for ~60-75 foot boats, up to 56 tons | Seakeeper 3: Specially designed to eliminate roll on ~35-41 foot boats