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Welcome to November 2006 QinetiQ newsletter. With over 50 years of maritime defence heritage, QinetiQ has been the UK government's key marine research and development arm for many decades. Our technology advice and solutions cover all aspects of naval platform requirements, delivering innovative, cost effective solutions for clients within the maritime environment by extracting value from defence research, de-risking technologies and applying them. Highlights this month include QinetiQ develops novel radar target simulator, Sensing for unmanned underwater vehicles, Fast Inshore Attack Craft joins the Navy and Future events. QinetiQ develops novel radar target simulator QinetiQ is to develop a novel radar target simulator to emulate realistic radar echoes from targets such as missiles, aircraft, small surface craft and submarine periscopes. The simulator will be used in the radar acceptance process, particularly in the maritime environment to test radar capability without the huge expense of conducting real-time trials with physical targets. Read the Press Release Sensing for unmanned underwater vehicles QinetiQ has won a US $7.7m (£4.1m) three-year contract from Bluefin Robotics Corporation in the US to deliver synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) for integration with Bluefin-12 unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs). The SAS will ensure the Bluefin UUVs record high resolution seabed data images at high area coverage rates. The total contract, worth nearly $18m, was awarded to Bluefin by the US Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) to design, develop and test Increment 2 of their UUVs for surface mine countermeasures. Read about synthetic aperture sonar Read the Press Release Fast Inshore Attack Craft joins the Navy The Royal Navy has accepted into service two remotely controlled Fast Inshore Attack Craft (FIAC) for use during live firing training exercises. The design of the craft exploits the technology developed by QinetiQ engineers that helped to clear a key strategic waterway of mines in Iraq during Operation TELIC - the first time the Navy used unmanned surface vessels in an operational role. The FIAC will be deployed by Flag Officer Sea Training and integrated into the existing sea training programme for Royal Navy ships. Read about our marine capabilities Read the Press Release Future events See our unmanned aerial vehicle - Zephyr - on the QinetiQ stand at the CBI Annual Conference, which takes place in London on 27/28 November. Read more about our work with the CBI Find out more about the Conference

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