Topside Drone (IMAGE)
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Dan Jennings, Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific, operates a commercial-off-the-shelf unmanned aerial vehicle outfitted with a corrosion/anomaly detection sensor payload and processing scheme aboard the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, California, during a demonstration the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global TechSolutions Topside Drone project. TechSolutions and NIWC Pacific developed the technology that will inspect and detect material defects, corrosion, warping and other conditions plaguing naval vessels. TechSolutions allows Sailors and Marines to submit technology requests directly to the development community for rapid response prototyping.
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US Navy photo by Bobby Cummings
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