Raytheon Company

Frank H Hitzke

Douglas L Veilleux, Ii

David A Sharp

Marc A Brown

Emily J Pikor

William E Komm

Domenic F Napolitano

David A Giroux

Edward M Gaboriault, Jr

Thomas S Wiggin

Craig W Bradford

Michael W Little

Christopher C Mello

Douglas L Veilleux Ii

Edward M Gaboriault Jr

An anchor holds a variety of mooring system elements, including processor-controlled cable brakes, prior to deployment of the anchor. The anchor is configured to automatically deploy the elements of the mooring system into a desired underwater configuration. A method of deploying an ocean anchor includes controlling cable brakes and results in the elements of the mooring system being deployed into a desired underwater configuration.

Anchor containing a self deploying mooring system and method of automatically deploying the mooring system from the anchor

An easily deployable data relay buoy, in some embodiments, has a diesel powered alternator and storage battery, providing long service life. The data relay buoy has mechanical characteristics that allow it to maintain antenna stability in the presence of seas states from at least zero through four and to survive in sea states up to sea state six.

Autonomous data relay buoy

A cable burial system includes a cable burial tool having a base frame, a blade extending downwardly from the base frame and having a vertically oriented internal slot therein with a slot width, and a feed shoe with an arcuate feed shoe periphery and a feed shoe width less than the slot width of the blade. The feed shoe is pivotably connected to the base frame and is pivotable between a lowered position wherein the feed shoe lies within the slot, and a raised position wherein the feed shoe lies outside of the slot. The feed shoe includes a jet opening in a periphery of the feed shoe, and a source of pressurized water in an interior manifold of the feed shoe in communication with the jet opening in the periphery of the feed shoe. A guide is operable to guide a cable into the slot in contact with the feed shoe periphery when the feed shoe is in the lowered position. The guide includes a feed horn affixed to the base frame with an outlet end adjacent to the upper end of the slot and centered on the slot, and a pair of movable guide plates disposed adjacent to the upper end of the slot and centered on the slot. The guide plates are movable between a closed position centered with a first spacing sufficiently greater than the feed shoe width to permit the feed shoe to lie therebetween, and an open position having a second spacing greater than the first spacing. The cable burial tool is pivotably connected to a burial sled.

Cable burial system

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Sarona, WI, United States of America

Frank H Hitzke