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currently produces radios for: Search
and Rescue; COSPAS_SARSAT
Beacons; Direction Finders; Datum
Marker Buoys; Telemetry and
Tracking; Miniaturized ARGOS
Satellite Transmitters; GOES Satellite
Transmitters; NOVATECH VHF
Beacons & Xenon Flashers.
Sidus Solutions
2785 Kurtz St. Ste. 1, San Diego, Calif. 92110
CEO: Leonard Pool
Marketing Director: Leslie Gill
Number of Employees: 10
Annual Sales (US$): $5 million
Founded in
September 2000,
SSI's team encom-
passes more than
40 years of com-
bined experience.
This team is built
of individuals who
are uniquely suit-
ed and experi-
enced in the industry of robotic posi-
tioning, control and monitoring sys-
tems. The primary business sectors
Sidus Solutions has marketed to have
been the oil & gas exploration & pro-
duction, refineries, oceanographic
research and power generation indus-
tries. Sidus Solutions offers a line of
state-of-the-art security and surveil-
lance products, including: SSI Pan-
and-Tilt System and Hernis CCTV.
SonTek/YSI Inc.
6837 Nancy Ridge Drive, Suite A, San Diego, CA, 92121
Tel: 858-546-8327; Fax: 858-546-8150
E-mail: cdelfin@sontek.com or inquiry@sontek.com
CEO: Rick Omlor
Executive Vice President: Gayle Rominger
Number of Employees: 250
(See Profile on page 49)
Sound Ocean Systems, Inc.
PO Box 2978, Redmond, WA 98073-2978
Tel: 425-869-1834; Fax 425-869-5554
E-mail: inquiries@soundocean.com
President: Ted Brockett
Vice President: John Moore
Sales Manager: Brian Reid
Number of Employees: 15
Annual Sales: $3 million
Sound Ocean Systems, Inc. (SOSI)
was established in 1978 to provide
marine and undersea systems and
related services at realistic costs
through innovative engineering. The
company offers unique first hand
experience and capability in the
development and operation of deep
water systems designed for 6,000 m
depth applications. SOSI ocean
observation and environmental data
logging systems include shallow
water, coastal and open-ocean data
buoys and ocean data platforms.
Buoy systems are supplied complete
including buoy, mooring, data logger,
telemetry, power, and oceanographic
and meteorological sensors. Data
telemetry options include ARGOS,
RF, Iridium and other satellite based
telemetry systems. Underwater vehi-
cles produced by SOSI include neu-
trally buoyant towed bodies and non-
buoyant vehicles used for sonar appli-
cations, and video/photographic sur-
veys of the seafloor or objects on the
seafloor.
Sperry Maine
1070 Seminole Trail, Charlottesville, VA 22901-2891
Tel: 434-974-2000; Fax: 434-974-2259
President: John MeMaso
Vice President: J. Nolasco DaCunha
Marketing Director: Frank Soccoli
Sperry Marine is a business unit of
Northrop Grumman Corp. Sperry
Marine provides navigation and ship
control solutions for the internation-
al marine industry with customer
service and support through offices in
16 countries, sales representatives in
47 countries, and authorized service
depots in more than 250 locations
around the world. Sperry Marine
markets a broad range of marine nav-
igation, ship control, information
and automation systems for the
world's merchant ships and naval ves-
sels.
Subconn Inc.
PO Box 2793, Duxbury, MA 02331
Tel: 781 934 0790 • Fax: 781 934 3281
Contact: Mike Stewart
Email: mac-us@macartney. www.subconn.com
(See Profile on page 50)
Teledyne Benthos
49 Edgerton Drive, North Falmouth, MA 02556
Tel: 508-563-1000; Fax: 508-563-6444
E-mail: pzentz@benthos.com
CEO and President: Ron Marsiglio
Vice President: Francois Leroy
Marketing Director: Peter Zentz
Number of Employees: 150
Annual Sales: $25 million
(See Profile on page 16)
Teledyne RD Instruments
E-mail: mnewcombe@adelphia.net
9855 Businesspark Avenue, San Diego, CA 92131
Tel: 858-693-1178; Fax: 858-695-1459
E-mail: glopez@teledyne.com
CEO: Robert Mehrabian
General Manager: William Kikendall
Vice President: Harold Maxfield
Business Unit Sales Managers:
Navigation Products - Graham Lester
Marine Measurements Products - Darryl Symonds
Water Resources Products - Earl Childress
Number of Employees: 200 (Teledyne RDI only)
Annual Sales: $38 million
(See Profile on page 51)
Telenor Satellite Services
1101 Wootton Pkwy, 10th floor, Rockville, MD 20852
Tel: 301-838-7805; Fax: 301-838-7832
E-mail: Thomas.surface@telenor-usa.com
Internet: www.telenor.com
CEO: Morten Tengs
President (U.S.): Britt Carina Horncastle
Vice President (U.S.): Dave Farmer
Sales Director: Bo Norton
Number of Employees: 550 Globally
Leonard Pool, CEO
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