Symposium
Join us as we celebrate another year of industry innovation with an exciting panel discussion, technology exhibits, and crab feast. Please register no later than Friday, October 3, 2025.
Save the Date!
Thursday, October 9, 2025
7001 Dorsey Road
Hanover, MD 21076
Symposium Agenda
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Marine Technology Exhibits
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
MTS Technology Forum
4:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Marine Technology Exhibits, Networking, and Maryland Crab Feast
Open to MTS Members and Invited Guests
The Oceaneering/MTS Symposium is the fall meeting of the Washington DC Section of the Marine Technology Society (MTS) and is open to MTS members and invited guests. Symposium guests include representatives from the U.S. Navy, NAVSEA, SOCOM, NASA, NSA, and U.S. Air Force, MTS members, Oceaneering employees, clients, maritime businesses, academia, and military service members. Foreign nationals may be in attendance.
This Year’s Exhibitors
Ansys, Part of Synopsys
Synopsys delivers the most trusted and comprehensive engineering solutions from silicon to systems, enabling customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products. We partner closely with our customers to maximize their R&D capability and productivity, powering innovation today that ignites the ingenuity of tomorrow. Companies trust Synopsys to pioneer new technologies that help them get to market faster without compromise.
Ansys, Part of Synopsys
Blacksea Technologies
BlackSea Technologies is a Baltimore-based defense company delivering advanced maritime systems at operational scale. From unmanned surface vessels to subsea platforms, we specialize in rapid design, manufacturing, and deployment that meets the urgency of today’s missions. Our production lines are built for speed, quality, and repeatability, enabling us to field proven systems worldwide. With expertise spanning engineering, integration, and sustainment, BlackSea closes critical capability gaps and strengthens deterrence at sea. We bring together veterans, innovators, and builders to solve the toughest challenges in naval autonomy and maritime security, ensuring readiness in contested and evolving environments.
Blacksea Technologies
Cathx Ocean
Cathx Ocean are pioneers of the most advanced subsea optical solutions for visual perception and automation on UUVs. We have taken our experience and knowledge and have developed a sensor agnostic edge-based processing and event detection platform for UUV autonomy. We work closely with our customers to address the challenges in collection and processing large amounts of data from underwater vehicles in the optical and non-optical domains. We provide technology solutions to extract information as early and efficiently as possible during an AUV mission so that our clients can focus their efforts on using it to make better decisions earlier.
Cathx Ocean
Forcys, Inc.
Forcys is a global maritime defense company with 50 years' domain expertise. Backed by our technology partners, Sonardyne, Voyis, EIVA, Wavefront, and Chelsea Technologies, we deliver mission-shaped solutions for undersea warfare. Integrating navigation, positioning, communications, imaging, sonar, and full-spectrum mission software systems for unmanned maritime systems and seafloor sensor networks.
Forcys, Inc.
Glenair, Inc.
Glenair excels in the design and manufacture of high-pressure, underwater connectors and cable assemblies for electrical and fiber optic applications. Our Pressure Balanced Oil Filled (PBOF) cable assemblies feature swivel attachments to address issues like kinked hoses, leaky fittings, and corrosion. We offer a range of PBOF and depth-rated assemblies for deep-sea applications, supported by a team of subsea industry experts. Our products also include miniaturized connectors for pipeline inspection and composite thermoplastic connectors for anti-cathodic delamination. All connectors are rigorously tested in our advanced hydrostatic lab, ensuring they meet stringent pressure, durability, shock, and salt spray corrosion standards.
Glenair, Inc.
HawkEye 360
HawkEye 360 is a defense technology leader providing pervasive knowledge of human activity, behavior, and situational trends derived from revolutionary radio frequency (RF) geospatial intelligence. HawkEye 360’s innovative satellite constellation detects, characterizes, and geolocates a broad range of RF signals. The large footprint and frequent revisit of HawkEye 360’s space-based sensing provide a unique point of view not fulfilled by terrestrial or airborne assets. HawkEye 360’s RF data and analytics create an information advantage – a true first step to a new discovery. This equips analysts to detect the first glimpse of suspicious behavior, trace the first sign of enemy activity, and reveal the first sighting of ships attempting to hide. HawkEye 360’s RF intelligence presents a quicker grasp of critical events and patterns of life, providing early warnings to drive tip-and-cue efforts, and providing global leaders the insights needed to make decisions with confidence.
HawkEye 360
Kraken Robotics
Kraken Robotics is a marine technology company providing complex subsea sensors, batteries, and robotic systems. Our high-resolution 3D acoustic imaging solutions and services enable clients to overcome the challenges in our oceans – safely, efficiently, and sustainably. Our innovative products, services and solutions are chosen by clients across Military and Defense, Offshore Energy and Ocean Exploration markets and other commercial survey applications worldwide.
We are world-leading innovators of Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) – a revolutionary underwater imaging technology providing ultra-high-resolution imagery at superior coverage rates which dramatically improves seabed surveys. Find out more: https://krakenrobotics.com/products/synthetic-aperture-sonar/
With the 2021 acquisition of PanGeo Subsea, now called Kraken Robotics Services, today Kraken also provides subsea Robotics as a Service (RaaS) capabilities including geophysical surveys and 2 sonar surveys. Kraken’s highly skilled team manages the project’s planning, subsea surveys, and delivers a complete data package to the customer.
Kraken Robotics
MacArtney, Inc.
MacArtney is a global supplier of underwater technology products and systems. We specialize in the design, manufacture, sales, and service of a wide range of systems for oil and gas offshore operators, ROV, diving, and survey contractors, the renewable energy sector, ocean science institutes, and navies worldwide.
MacArtney designs and manufactures state-of-the-art connectivity solutions. Key technologies include wet- and dry-mateable power, signal and optical connector solutions, terminations and penetrators, under the renowned SubConn®, TrustLink and OptoLink brands, GreenLink termination solutions and subsea cables from leading manufacturers.
MacArtney, Inc.
Marine Technology Society
MTS creates opportunities through networking, events, mentorship, and career advancement. Our vision is to be the leading authority and advocate for marine technology and resources while promoting member success and public understanding.
- Facilitate a broader understanding of the relevance of marine technology to wider global issues by enhancing the dissemination of marine technology information.
- Promote and improve marine technology and related educational programs.
- Advance the development of the tools and procedures required to explore, study and further the responsible and sustainable use of the oceans.
Marine Technology Society
Ocean Exchange, Inc.
Ocean Exchange is a global ecosystem whose mission is to accelerate the adoption of innovative solutions for healthy oceans and the sustainable blue economy.
We fulfill this mission through a rigorous, multi-level program that includes annual monetary awards, promoting registered Solutions Inspiring Action across multiple communication channels, and facilitating access to a global network of experts from around the world. This network is the heart of our ecosystem that encourages and supports pioneering companies focused on the development and commercialization of breakthrough technologies.
Ocean Exchange, Inc.
Ocean Power Technologies
Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) delivers innovative maritime solutions that provide persistent power, data, and intelligence at sea. Its core technologies—the PowerBuoy®, WAM-V® Unmanned Surface Vehicles, and AI-capable Merrows™ Maritime Domain Awareness System—enable reliable offshore monitoring, communications, and operations across surface, subsea, and aerial domains. With a focus on autonomy, endurance, and adaptability, OPT helps address challenges from infrastructure protection and environmental monitoring to research and security. By combining renewable energy with advanced sensing and data integration, OPT empowers organizations to operate more efficiently, sustainably, and effectively across the world’s oceans.
Ocean Power Technologies
Okeanus
Okeanus is an Advanced Ocean Systems (AOS) company specializing in the design, production and testing of winches and launch and recovery system, including automated systems for uncrewed vehicles. With our affiliate companies at AOS, we plan, design, develop, fabricate, test, field, and install integrated solutions for USVs, UUVs, crewed platforms and subsea infrastructure. We offer a spectrum of capabilities to the DOD market including automated deployment/retrieval systems, winches, USVs, ROVs, subsea cable systems and sensor arrays, and associated program management, field support, and sustainment.
Okeanus
Rampart Products
Rampart Products provides hermetic & ruggedized interconnect systems and components to many industries including Under Water, Mil/Aero, Oil & Gas, Space, Medical, Pipeline Inspection & Nuclear.
Rampart Products, founded in 2016, is a vertically integrated manufacturer outpacing the industry due to a combination of cutting-edge technology and the highest level of customer satisfaction. Rampart Products’ founders have over 100 years’ experience designing and manufacturing products used in subsea and oil/gas drilling applications, one of the toughest environments known, subjected to extreme temperature/pressure/shock and vibration (up to 500°F, 30,000 psi, 2000 G’s) – This Is Where we live!
Rampart Products
Saildrone
Saildrone provides comprehensive, real-time data solutions for maritime security, seafloor mapping, and ocean research. Proprietary software and machine learning transform that data into actionable insights and intelligence. Saildrone’s fleet of uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs), powered by renewable wind and solar power, are designed to scale ocean data collection with a minimum carbon footprint. Saildrone USVs operate 24/7/365 without the need for a crewed support vessel. The Saildrone fleet has sailed more than 1,300,000 nautical miles and spent over 42,000 days at sea in the harshest ocean conditions on the planet.
Saildrone
Saronic Technologies
Saronic Technologies is a defense technology company that designs and manufactures Autonomous Surface Vessels (ASVs) at scale. In an increasingly complex and competitive global security environment, Saronic is on a mission to protect our way of life by integrating ASVs into traditional naval and maritime fleets, enabling them to go farther and do more with less risk to life and mission.
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Saronic employs world-class experts in technology, engineering, naval architecture, and scalable manufacturing to deliver ASVs at the speed and scale of mission relevance.
Saronic Technologies
SH Group: Where Engineering Meets Excellence in Maritime and Defence
With engineering brilliance and unparalleled production capabilities, SH Group is at the forefront of Maritime and Defence handling technology and service solutions. With our specialized engineering department and in-house production facilities, we offer an integrated approach to tackle today’s most complex nautical and Defence challenges.
With our expertise in hydraulic, mechanical, and electrical systems, we engineer transformative equipment like our Sepro™ line and the Cube™ Multi-mission modules. Our one-point-of-contact service ensures streamlined communication and swift problem resolution.
Setting New Standards: Maritime and Defence Solutions by SH Group
SH Group
Sidus Solutions, LLC
We are a full-service manufacturer offering integrated subsea hazardous area security and surveillance solutions, from conceptual design through engineering to technical and client support. Our subsea products are operational to depths exceeding 6,500m. Worldwide, SIDUS serves the oil, gas, academic, scientific & military industries. SIDUS is unique to the market in the fact that we offer EPCi-Engineering, Procurement, Construction & installation support with the capability to interface/integrate our systems with all of the major automation/PLC/SCADA systems.
Produkte
Cameras & imaging systems. Positioning devices: pan & tilt, rotators. Illumination: lights and lasers. Integrated systems & technologies. Engineering Services.
Sidus Solutions, LLC
Sofar Ocean
Sofar Ocean is connecting the world's oceans to power a more sustainable future. Sofar's Spotter buoy platform reduces the cost and complexity of measuring waves, temperature, water level, currents, water quality, underwater acoustics, and more. Sofar also offers global marine weather forecasts and weather-based route optimization software.
Sofar Ocean
SubSeaSail®, Inc.
SubSeaSail®, Inc. is developing disruptively affordable, long-duration (1-6+ months), multimission Autonomous Undersea & Surface Vessels (AUSVs). We have 2 lines of 100% energy harvesting (wind/solar), ultra-low-signature AUSVs (HORUS™ for observation & HERMES™ for cargo/energy) that can submerge & function in contested environments.
These are dual use vehicles positioned at the intersection of autonomy, Big Data/AI, BlueTech, CleanTech, DefenseTech and Robotics. They will be important in the academic / commercial sectors but will also help re-define the future of warfighting in the ocean battlespace. We have 10 issued patents in Australia, Europe and the U.S. and 6 patents pending.
SubSeaSail®, Inc.
TDI-Brooks International, Inc.
TDI-Brooks is a 29-year-old research and service company specializing in geotechnical and offshore survey projects; multi-disciplinary oceanographic and environmental projects; surface geochemical exploration; and high-end environmental chemistry for IOC, maritime and offshore wind clients in addition to federal and state agencies. TDI-Brooks has five (5) multi-use oceanographic vessels suited for a wide variety of survey research duties.
TDI-Brooks is a leader in maritime operations and technological innovation. Our advanced capabilities in maritime, surface, and subsurface environments are specifically designed to support and enhance defense operations. We aim to leverage our strengths to address the evolving challenges in global defense landscapes.
TDI-Brooks International, Inc.
VideoRay, LLC
VideoRay is the global leader in inspection-class Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs), delivering reliable, mission-critical subsea solutions to commercial operators, navies, and security forces worldwide. As part of AV, VideoRay combines proven expeditionary performance with AV’s advanced uncrewed systems expertise, creating a portfolio designed to give customers a decisive operational edge.
The Mission Specialist product line, including the Defender, Ally, and Pro 5, is built on a flexible, modular architecture that enables advanced payload integration, in-field repairs, and unmatched power and reach. These systems are trusted in programs such as the U.S. Navy’s Maritime Expeditionary Standoff Response (MESR), where safety, precision, and effectiveness are paramount.
VideoRay, LLC
Panel Discussion: Safety and Security of Subsea Critical Infrastructure
As subsea networks become increasingly vital to global connectivity, energy distribution, and defense operations, their vulnerability to physical sabotage, cyberattacks, and environmental hazards demands urgent attention.
From fiber optic cables that carry over 95% of global internet traffic to pipelines that transport oil, gas, and other critical resources, these systems operate in harsh, remote environments where failure or interference can have far-reaching consequences. Ensuring their safety and security requires a multidisciplinary approach, blending autonomous systems, subsea resident solutions, real-time monitoring, and cybersecurity.
Our expert panel will explore these topics and many more.
Moderator
Leigh McCue-Weil
Associate Professor and Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering | George Mason University
Leigh Shaw McCue-Weil is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at George Mason University, Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering there, and former Executive Director of the American Society of Naval Engineers. McCue majored in mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University, graduating in 2000. After earning a master's degree in aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan, she switched to naval architecture and marine engineering, earning a second master's degree there in 2002 and completing her Ph.D. in 2004. Her dissertation, Chaotic Vessel Motions and Capsize in Beam Seas, was supervised by Armin Troesch.
She became a faculty member in the Virginia Tech Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering from 2004 to 2015. From 2015 to 2018 she was Executive Director of the American Society of Naval Engineers. In 2019 she took her present position at George Mason University. At Virginia Tech, McCue won a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for 2008, and in 2013 was given the Rosenblatt Young Naval Engineer Award of the American Society of Naval Engineers.
Panelists
Rear Admiral Paul Flos
Program Director | International Naval Materiel Cooperation | Dutch Ministry of Defence
Rear Admiral Paul Flos is a seasoned naval officer with over 30 years of experience in operational, technical, and diplomatic roles. Born in Tegelen, Netherlands, in 1966, he began his naval career at the age of 18, when he started his officer training at the Royal Naval College in Den Helder and served on several naval vessels, including HNLMS Tromp and HNLMS De Ruyter, for over 10 years in operational positions.
As a naval officer, Rear Admiral Flos has had a distinguished career, with a strong focus on engineering and technical expertise. He served as Head of the Engineering Department on HNLMS Tjerk Hiddes and HNLMS Johan de Witt, and as Defence Attaché in Syria, Lebanon, and Iran for 2 years. He also worked at the NATO Helicopter Management Agency in Aix-en-Provence, France.
From 2019 to 2023, Rear Admiral Flos served as Head of Naval Systems at the Defence Materiel Organisation, now known as COMMIT Materiel and IT Command. Currently, he serves as Director of Program International Naval Materiel Cooperation, fostering collaboration and cooperation between nations and industries to enhance maritime defence capabilities, with a focus on Unmanned Systems and protecting Critical Underwater Infrastructure. Additionally, since April 2025, he has held the position of Chairman of the NATO Naval Armament Group (NNAG).
Tim Gallaudet
CEO | Ocean STL Consulting
Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, PhD, US Navy (ret) is the CEO of Ocean STL Consulting where he serves as a strategic advisor for a variety of tech startups, research institutions, and philanthropies. He is a former Under Secretary of Commerce and Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and prior to NOAA, Gallaudet served for 32 years in the US Navy, completing his career in the Pentagon as the Navy’s chief oceanographer, meteorologist, hydrographer, navigator, and senior liaison officer to the NOAA Administrator. He has a bachelor’s degree from the U.S. Naval Academy, and master and doctoral degrees from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, all in oceanography. Gallaudet is a recipient of the 2019 Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute’s Champion of the Ocean Award, a fellow at The Explorer’s Club, a distinguished graduate of the University of California, San Diego, and recipient of the U.S. Coast Guard Distinguished Public Service Award. His book about leading NOAA during President Trump’s first term is titled Holding Fast in Heavy Seas: Leadership for Turbulent Times and will be published by Koehler Books in the Fall of 2025.
Captain Bill Mowitt
Director | NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration | Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
CAPT Bill Mowitt is the acting Director of NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration in the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. The Office of Ocean Exploration leads national efforts to fill gaps in basic understanding of the deep-ocean environment, providing critical data, information, and awareness needed to protect American livelihoods, strengthen national security, and promote a vibrant U.S. economy.
Prior to his service with Ocean Exploration, he was the Director of NOAA’s Uncrewed Systems (UxS) Operations Center, located in the Office of Marine and Aviation Operations. There he led NOAA’s adoption of more than 20 different Uncrewed Systems across the agency's oceans and weather missions portfolios. In his time with the NOAA Corps, CAPT Mowitt served more than nine years at sea on NOAA Ships. This took him to virtually all parts of the U.S. EEZ and included time as Commanding Officer of the NOAA Ships Henry B. Bigelow und Pisces, where he spearheaded the integration of bathymetric multibeam sonars on both ships, expanding their mission sets.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Oceaneering/MTS Symposium is the fall meeting of the Washington DC Section of the MTS and is open to MTS members and invited guests. Foreign nationals may be in attendance.
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Join Us in Hanover—Where Ideas Surface!
The 33rd Annual Oceaneering/MTS Symposium will be held at our facilities in Hanover, Maryland. This dynamic venue serves as a hub for innovation in marine and defense technologies, making it the ideal setting for a day of industry insights, networking, and hands-on exhibits from top marine technology companies.
