The annual Robotic Experimentation and Prototyping with Maritime Unmanned Systems (REPMUS) Exercise is one of the world’s largest testing events for maritime robotics and uncrewed systems. 2025 marked the 15th edition of REPMUS, and for the first time, was conducted jointly with NATO’s Dynamic Messenger (DYMS) exercise, which is part of NATO’s Operational Experimentation (OPEX) series. The joint event provided opportunities to test and evaluate emerging technologies in a realistic and operational environment while supporting NATO’s goal of maintaining a technological and tactical edge.
Scientists from JASCO Applied Sciences participated in late May in the fourth edition of the OCEANOISE conference series. On the closing day of the conference, an expert panel engaged with the audience in a plenary discussion. The outcome was a consensus on the need to issue a new urgent call to action for the global implementation of effective technologies and regulations aimed at reducing human produced noise in the oceans. It was agreed that such a statement would be published on World Ocean Day.
The inaugural Canadian Autonomy Trials Series – Maritime (CATS-M), led by Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC), is designed to strengthen collaboration and support maritime testing and validation of innovative technologies with industry partners. Held in Holyrood, Newfoundland, the trial saw JASCO Applied Sciences (JASCO) lead a team in the deployment of multiple Maritime Unmanned Systems (MUS) in support of Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) barrier experimentation.
Between December 2024 and March 2025, JASCO led a multi-phase evaluation of an autonomous dipping acoustics platform deployed on an Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) as part of the Innovative Solutions Canada Test Stream program.
The system was equipped with JASCO’s collapsible planar hydrophone array and heave-compensated winch, enabling acoustics monitoring traditionally performed by crewed vessels with towed arrays. The dipping array system is designed to be integrated with a range of USVs, allowing flexible deployments across different autonomous systems.
Designed as a low-power, low-cost, mid-term deployable platform, the system represents a scalable alternative to traditional crewed acoustic operations.
PERTH, WA.—In September 2023, JASCO Applied Sciences (JASCO), Blue Ocean Marine Tech Systems (BO-MTS), and Ocius Technology (OCIUS) successfully completed a five-day collaborative demonstration of near-real-time detection, classification, and tracking of marine mammals using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) off the coast of Perth, Western Australia.
HALIFAX, N.S.—JASCO Applied Sciences is pleased to announce a joint project collaboration to demonstrate, train, and enable indigenous fishers from Miawpukek First Nation (MFN) in whale-safe (ropeless) fishing and acoustic data collection.
VICTORIA, B.C.—JASCO Applied Sciences and Open Ocean Robotics (OOR) are pleased to announce the successful initial service trial of JASCO’s OceanObserver system onboard OOR’s Data Xplorer USV, for Innovative Solutions Canada’s ‘Real-time Marine Monitoring Service Via Uncrewed Surface Vessel’ program.
HALIFAX, N.S.—Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) has procured two ObserverBuoy 3m systems from Canadian environmental science and engineering company JASCO Applied Sciences.
