OCS-The Navigation Response Branch requires small autonomous surface vessels for hydrographic surveying

NOAA's Navigation Response Branch seeks to procure a fleet of approximately 2 - 4 small autonomous surface vessels (ASV) for routine and emergency response hydrographic surveys. This requirement includes the necessary equipment for transporting, deploying, and recovering the ASVs. The ASVs will be equipped with a suite of sensors and communication equipment as necessary to ensure their safe operation in a variety of operating modes, including: remote controlled, pilot-in-the-loop, individual autonomous operations, and various coordinated multi-ASV operations. The ASVs will also include survey systems that include multibeam sonar, side scan sonar, GNSS/INS, sound speed measurement at the multibeam transducer, and sound speed profiling of the water column. Advanced autonomous capabilities such as adaptive line planning, feature detection & development, and deployment of sound speed profiling equipment based on near real-time data quali