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from Business Notebook in The Washington Post
Thursday, July 28, 2005; Page HO05
The U.S. Navy wants technology that will enable cameras
to download sharp images of land and sea from the air.
To that end, it awarded a multi-year contract to Optemax
LLC , an optical wireless technology company based in
Ellicott City.
Optemax says it has the know-how to transmit up to a
terabit of data -- the equivalent of nine DVDs -- in
one second. The Navy wants the company to apply that
know-how to technology that will enable unmanned aerial
vehicles to scan and download clear images of rivers,
bayous, tributaries and land.
"Most people do not realize how many airplanes
and aerial vehicles the Navy owns," said Shirley
D. Collier , Optemax's chief executive. "The Navy
is very focused on small agile aircraft that can be
launched from carriers and scan land and small bodies
of water to seek out the bad guys."
Optemax has not disclosed the dollar value of the contract.
The company is working with NavAir, a division of the
Navy at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station in St.
Mary's County, to come up with the technology."There
are new cameras that can apparently take underwater
images from outer space," Collier said. But there's
not enough bandwidth to transmit sharp images. "Our
technology will enable a lot of these new, fancy, high-resolution
technologies to be utilized."
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