ADAC Overview to U.S. Coast Guard D17 15 Feb 2019

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1 A presentation by ADAC Overview to U.S. Coast Guard D17 15 Feb 2019 Arctic Domain Awareness Center University of Alaska Executive Director

2 University of Alaska s Arctic Domain Awareness Center... Operator driven research to support the Arctic maritime mission of the U.S. Coast Guard......and other U.S. federal maritime security and safety activities...and to support the public good. Meet our customers Courtesy The Arctic Institute Courtesy NASA.gov Courtesy Defense news.com Courtesy The Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission

3 Advancing Arctic Domain Awareness In Support of the Arctic Operator It begins with: What keeps the Commanders up at night? The Arctic impacts of time and distance! Few resources smart investments! Information and awareness to support and potentially drive operations. Solutions need to be reliable, reduce risk and increase decision precision. Photo from Wikipedia

4 University of Alaska s Arctic Domain Awareness Center ADAC is hosted by the University of Alaska, with work conducted at UA campuses in Anchorage and Fairbanks and conducts research across a growing network of academic and industry partners. Vision: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence (DHS), providing networked and mission-focused support to the U.S. Coast Guard Operator in the High North. Mission: To develop and transition technology solutions, innovative products and educational programs to improve situational awareness and crisis response capabilities related to maritime challenges posed by the dynamic Arctic environment. Strategy: Advance knowledge in relevant science and technology through conducting research and development in close collaboration with mission agencies end users. The Center also develops future leaders for the DHS enterprise through structured education programs. ADAC s principal customer: U.S. Coast Guard in support of their Arctic search & rescue, disaster response, law enforcement and assistance missions. ADAC works with an array of International, federal, state, local, tribal, industry and academic partners to advance domain awareness of the Arctic region.

5 ADAC s strategic approach S&T, Convene and Educate 1. Lead Arctic focused Science and technology research 2. Convening experts via Arctic focused workshops to create new understandings and solve problems 3. Conduct a educational Programs

6 Thinking about needed capabilities for the Arctic What s needed? Increased Domain Awareness across the Arctic. Improved ability to operate and communicate (and technologies that reduce risks to the operator). Smart infrastructure investments to enable right sized security presence to serve and protect and secure U.S. Sovereign territory. Presence and ability to patrol and enforce U.S. laws across the U.S. Extended Economic Zone. Ability to know the hazards beneath the waves as marine traffic increases. Ability to protect ports and infrastructure investments in light of physical/environmental changes. Improved ability to respond to search and rescue, humanitarian assistance and disaster response from small to large scale.

7 How can researchers best help the Arctic operator? Understand it s about increasing mission success and reducing operator risk. Let operators drive. Listen and apply. Partner and collaborate. Seek a balanced research portfolio. Think in both near and long term. Integrate human factors and social science into S&T. Seek to adapt to the Arctic that is presenting itself. Deliver and transition. It is much more than a new and/or better widget A polar low northeast of Scandinavia in the Barents Sea. Credit: Erik Kolstad/flickr

8 Board of Directors ADAC Organization and web of control and coordination DHS S&T OUP PM President Principal Customer: U.S. Coast Guard ADAC Research Network ADAC Leadership Team ADAC Research Projects Chancellor & Provost ADAC Executive Counselors (External Advisors Board) ADAC Leadership Team Composition: Principal Investigator. Dr. Doug Causey, UAA Research Director. Dr Larry Hinzman, UAF Executive Director. Maj Gen (Ret) Randy Church Kee, UAA Finance Director. Prof Heather Paulsen, UAA Project Manager. Prof LuAnn Piccard, UAA Education and Administration Manager. Ms. Ellee Mathews, UAA ADAC s Executive Counselors. U.S and Canadian Leaders from: Research. Academics. Government. Industry.

9 Tom Barrett, VADM (Ret), USCG, President, Alyeska Corporation, Anchorage Alaska. Admiral Barrett is a former USCG Vice Commandant and USCG District 17 Commander. Paul Hubbard, PhD, Director General, Director General at Defence Research and Development Canada s Centre for Security Science (DRDC CSS) in Ottawa Canada Department of National Defense, Ottawa Canada. John Farrell, PhD, Executive Director, U.S. Arctic Research Commission, Washington D.C. Heather Quilenderino, PhD, CDR, USN, Director, U.S. National Ice Center, Suitland Maryland. Roberta Quintavell, President & CEO, Sitnasuak Native Corporation, Nome, Alaska, Tom Case, Lt Gen, USAF (Ret), Chancellor Emeritus, UAA, Anchorage, Alaska. ADAC s Executive Counselors The Center s Board of Advisors The ADAC Executive Counselors advise ADAC leadership on overall strategy for the Center efforts, connected ADAC to greater research collaboration and provide advice for individual Center projects. Mike Faust, (Ret), Former Vice President of Exploration, Conoco-Phillips Corporation, Anchorage Alaska.

10 ADAC s Research Network of both current and completed investigations contribute to building bridges and partnerships! ADAC s Research Network has been crucial in helping the Center advance in Building Agency Partnerships

11 Presenting to the community of Arctic and Maritime Research ADAC Leadership and research investigators presented and or participated in a large number of notable Arctic and/or Maritime Research or operator forums to advance Safety and Security.

12 ADAC s Arctic Environmental Security Course (BIOL 490/690) Experimental course co-instructed by ADAC Principal Investigator and Executive Director at UAA Spring Semester 2018 and 2019 Topics include: Ecological Dynamics. Social Resilience. Subsistence and Food Security. Environmental Conservation. Regional and National Security. 25 Students. Seminar style. On-line participation, including guest lectures.

13 The Mission Prosecuting Research ADAC has a comprehensive approach to conducting research, Led by project teams executing DHS S&T OUP Approved Workplans. Guided by Center leadership. Communicated with the community of key stakeholders across the U.S. and Canada Federal, State, Local, Tribal, Academic and Industry. Advised by the Center s Executive Counselors. Driven by Project Champions at HQ USCG. Administered by DHS S&T OUP.

14 (Some) of the Challenges faced by the maritime operator Weather Illumination Distances Sea ice (its more complicated than one may think) Logistics Infrastructure Communications Bathymetry (what s below the waves?) Helping the operator...means improving the... Ability to locate people who need help Ability to locating people who are doing illegal activities Ability to suitably respond to disasters Ability to identify threats and risks to our interests In sum...an ability to respond Strengthening partnerships... Research in support of ops Accordingly...ADAC s Mission = an opportunity to help S&T Solutions Knowledge Products Convening experts to study, discern and propose Education Programs

15 Addressing problems...increasing forecasts of sea ice and queuing bathymetry surveys...to improve safety of Arctic shipping

16 ADAC s Current Projects Crisis Response Sea-Ice and Weather Forecasting tools High-resolution Ice-Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (HIOMAS) Arctic Oil Spill Modeling (AOSM) Ice Conditions Index for the Great Lakes Region (Great Lakes ICECON) (and soon Arctic ICECON for the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort Seas) Using Vessel Tracking Data to Prioritize Bathymetric Surveying (Now Automated Identification System-Prioritized for Arctic Charting (AIS-PAC) Arctic Domain All-Hazards WebGIS Arctic Vessel Monitoring Geofencing/Alert Awareness Propeller-driven Long-Range Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (LRAUV) Exploring Enhancements to Arctic Communications and Domain Awareness using the ASF CubeSat Antenna Farm Experiment (CAFE)

17 ADAC s New and Prior S&T Research New Mitigating the Damage to Arctic Copepods from Surface Oil Spills: When to Apply Dispersants Photo-enhanced toxicity of dispersed and burned crude oil to Arctic mussels Marine Induced Polarization Methods for the Detection and Mapping of Oil in an Arctic Marine Oil Spill, including investigation of Oil within and under broken ice fields. Clean Oil Spill In-situ burning in Arctic. Oil Spill Modeling for Improved Response to Arctic Maritime Spills Prior Mariner Ice Navigation Courseware for IMO Polar Code Real-Time Storm Surge and Coastal Flood Forecasting for Western Alaska Integrated Ice Hazards Develop low-cost wireless sensors Arctic Information Fusion Capability (AIFC) Monitoring Intentional and Unintentional Catastrophic Events: Detecting sea ice and oil spills through measurement of the H2O and C isotope geochemistry in winds Smart-Camera research. CBON-SA/CBONS-FIST

18 Crisis Response Sea-Ice and Weather Forecasting tools Research project strives to improve USCG and other DHS Arctic maritime operator situational awareness and crisis response by enhancing support for planning and emergency response to meteorological and environmental marine hazards in the Arctic. Literature Reviews and interviews with a host of marine operators. Identification of hazardous ice events using coastal radars: Ice Convergence, Landfast ice breakout and Anomalous ice motion. Transition: Researchers underway in developing decision support tools, grounded in stakeholder interactions, to support weather and sea ice-sensitive decision making. Developing a prototype with software and hardware in the Barrow region. In discussions to create pathway for transition completed research to AOOS, and prototype observations provided via AOOS to NOAA/NWS Observations and as determined by USCG Project Champion.

19 High resolution Modeling of Arctic Sea Ice and Currents HIOMAS (High-resolution Ice-Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System) A forecast system that can distribute the forecast data to the Coast Guard and other Arctic stakeholders. Developed 3 versions of HIOMAS with 6, 4 and 2 km horizontal resolutions. Assimilate satellite sea ice concentration in HIOMAS hindcast to improve initial conditions for forecast. Calibrated and validated HIOMAS hindcast using sea ice observations; no excessive ice thickness buildup in areas such as the Beaufort Sea. Conducted (near) real-time hindcast and daily to seasonal forecast of Arctic sea ice and currents. Just created a 1 KM resolution version for the US. EEZ for Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort Seas 2 km resolution Pan Arctic HIOMAS Transition: In work to AOOS and Axiom Data Sciences as destination to publish to NOAA, NWS, & US National Ice Center 1 km resolution HIOMAS US Arctic EEZ

20 Arctic Oil Spill Modeling (AOSM) Project assists U.S. Coast Guard and the NOAA Office of Response and Restoration with the development of an Arctic-capable oil spill model that can be leveraged via NOAA s General NOAA Operational Model Environment (GNOME). Working with NOAA to develop a new variable within GNOME: under-ice storage capacity. Ice storage capacity has been estimated at several locations in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, based on ice draft data. 3 D model support for LRAUV. Improving integration of TAMOC with GNOME to include all oil fate processes. Training NOAA staff to use TAMOC and AOSC algorithms within GNOME. Capable of On-demand support (such as Cook Inlet Methane Leak). Transition: NOAA s GNOME.

21 Creating an Ice Conditions Decision Index for the Great Lakes region maritime operations Developing an ice condition index (ICECON) for the Great Lakes for USCG operators and lake mariners that can use available data to forecast ICECON up to 3 days into the future. Creates important ship safety, potentially reducing number of ship rescues for vessel ice entrapment. With ice parameters collected by USCG and Canadian Coast Guard crews operating in the Great Lakes in the time frame, team conducting Monte Carlo simulations to determine the most predictive relationship between the ice parameters and ICECON. Using ice-data from the period in conjunction with AIS data to determine which parameters affect vessel speed and are important to ICECON. Pulling nowcast and forecast data in real-time (every 6 hours), compute the ICECON nowcast and forecast, and display it on a project website. Transition: USNIC to project ICECON and create an Arctic version if approved. ADAC s Great Lakes ICECON Beta 1.0 Version

22 Using Vessel Tracking Data to Prioritize Bathymetric Surveying Project creates products that inform decision-making about vessel traffic and vessel safety in a rapidly changing Arctic environment. The research effort is develop the capability to reduce execution time for handling and analyzing exceptionally large collections of Automated Information System (AIS) vessel tracking data. A large data analytics effort. Gridded files provide the extracted AIS information needed for decision makers and stakeholders in the U.S. Arctic area. Transition: Completed: 31 Dec 2018: A set of knowledge products useful for USCG and NOAA to apply to survey/mapping efforts for Alaska (including Arctic Alaska). Now being leveraged for NOAA Summer 2019 Bathymetric Surveys AOOS AIS-PAC Completed Project Webpage:

23 Arctic Domain All-Hazards WebGIS Project assists U.S. Coast Guard with the development of an Arctic allhazards webgis built within the DHS Geospatial Information Infrastructure and the Homeland Security Information Network. Basic research into U/X and U/I for all-hazards web mapping. Coordinating with USCG to include data and views that will quickly assist Arctic Stakeholders. Working with the DHS Geospatial Management Office to improve how USCG interfaces with web maps. Improving integration of Arctic data sources and spatial layers. Serves as a testbed for further development of localized webgis protals for USCG Transition: The Arctic All-Hazards WebGIS housed within the GII/HSIN. Assess Needs Evaluate Performance Design Specifications Implement Systems Design/Develop/Test Software

24 Arctic Vessel Monitoring Geofencing/Alert Awareness Advance Arctic Maritime Domain Awareness and Management by boosting the development and implementation of automated geofencing alerts to the U.S. Coast Guard to enhance maritime safety, security, environmental protection, and vessel regulatory compliance in U.S. Arctic Waters. Geofences can be customized by the end-user to meet agencies requirements. Have multiple filters and GIS overlays to better discriminate vessel type and activities. GIS files will be importable and exportable by end-users. Alerts and notifications can be received on multiple unclassified platform devices by government agencies. Geofence/alert notifications sent to Social Media/ platforms for other Federal/State agencies and Arctic stakeholders. Coastal Communities can receive tailored notification and alerts. Transition: Software will transitioned to the U.S. Coast Guard, State of Alaska, and the maritime industry within the U.S. Arctic Exclusive Economic Zone.

25 Propeller Driven Long Range Autonomous Underwater Vehicle LRAUV is helicopter portable, carrying an environmental mapping payload, allowing rapid response to provide situational awareness and damage mitigation for first responders/uscg. Initial Capabilities (expandable): Ability to map in 3D. Extended unattended deployment (days to weeks). 600 KM range under ice. Detection and quantification of dissolved particles and fluorescent material (with current sensor package). Environmental characterization. Transition: CG-926, USCG RDC & or Commercialization. Tethys testing deployment January 2018 being operated from a cell phone in Monterey Bay California Photos of LRAUV, fabrication at MBARI Plume mapping auto detection and mapping Buzzard Bay MA, (Prototype) November 2016 and Actual vehicle, Monterey Bay 2018 Vehicle cart and Nbell/chassis Thruster assembly Variable Ballast Assembly

26 Exploring Enhancements to Arctic Communications and Domain Awareness using the ASF CubeSat Antenna Farm Experiment (CAFE) Project is direct USCG award, that partners ADAC and University of Alaska Fairbanks Alaska Satellite Facility to conduct cube satellite research in support of USCG Arctic Communications shortfall research via a Mobile CubeSat Command and Control (MC3) antenna system and radome at the Alaska Satellite Facility. Research will increase USCG knowledge on Arctic communications and viability of Cube satellites to improve maritime communication in Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. Transition: Depends on directions from HQ DHS S&T. 4 Dec 2019: Satellites Kodiak and Yukon deployed on Polar Low Earth Orbit...Kodiak functioning in accordance with plan, but while Yukon initially functioned, communications was lost shortly following first contact. However, experiment is considered a success.

27 ADAC s New Efforts in Oil Spill Research Mitigating the Damage to Arctic Copepods from Surface Oil Spills: When to Apply Dispersants. Led by Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, this project conducts specialized research and analysis via controlled experiments of the impact of chemically dispersed oil on key Arctic organisms (specifically calanoid copepods). Photo-enhanced toxicity of dispersed and burned crude oil to Arctic mussels. Led by University of Alaska Anchorage College of Arts and Sciences, Alaska Sea Life Center and University of New Orleans. This project seeks to determine whether extreme seasonal changes in sunlight exposure can affect the toxicity of oil, dispersed oil, and burned oil to Arctic mussels and to communicate to spill response personnel which strategy has the least impact. Marine Induced Polarization Methods for the Detection and Mapping of Oil in an Arctic Marine Oil Spill, including investigation of Oil within and under broken ice fields. Led Induced Polarization Associates, LLC. This project demonstrates Marine Induced Polarization (IP) to detect and potentially characterize contamination of hydrocarbons in Arctic waters, including partial ice formations and under ice pack.

28 ADAC s New Efforts in Oil Spill Research (Cont) Clean Oil Spill In-situ burning in Arctic. Led by Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory. This project is to develop self-floating Flame Refluxers and experiment in laboratory environment for an insitu burning application in Arctic conditions. Oil Spill Modeling for Improved Response to Arctic Maritime Spills. Led by University of New Hampshire s Coastal Response Research Center, Center for Spills in the Environment, this project will use a workshop-based approach to create a knowledge product to strategize modeling solutions to improve Arctic oil spill response.

29 ADAC s prior research investigations Mariner Ice Navigation Courseware for IMO Polar Code. ADAC s partner, Maine Maritime Academy (MMA) has developed a basic ice navigation class and has just completed an advanced ice navigation class to meet this knowledge gap. Real-Time Storm Surge and Coastal Flood Forecasting for Western Alaska. ADAC developed high resolution, nearshore forecasts of storm surge, coastal flooding, and wave conditions at two sites on the West Coast of Alaska the Yukon Kuskokwim river delta and Norton Sound. The Delft3D and SWAN models were used for the storm surge and wave modeling, respectively. Integrated Ice Hazards and Sensors. Develop framework for identifying, tracking and communicating sea ice-related hazards utilizing existing Arctic observing assets. Project enhances capability of surface-based radar (either coastal or ship-borne for monitoring sea ice hazards). Develop low-cost wireless sensors These were for use in remote monitoring, asset management, surveillance, and security, particularly in Arctic and marine environments.

30 ADAC s prior research investigations, page 2 Arctic Information Fusion Capability (AIFC). Project supports operational decision makers in the maritime domain ranging from operational commanders to tactical operators to community-based observers. AIFC advanced research for two-dimensional geographic orientation of precision mapping data, near-real-time and high-resolution satellite imagery incorporated with available modeling, sensors, web-based communications and appropriate social networking feeds to gain domain awareness in support of operational decision making and interface with humans and responders. Monitoring Intentional and Unintentional Catastrophic Events: Detecting sea ice and oil spills through measurement of the H2O and C isotope geochemistry in winds. Provide ship or vessel captains real-time data of sea ice conditions (open water, light sea ice, heavy sea ice and total sea ice coverage) and presence of oil chemicals in a marine environment. Smart-Camera research. Project designed a power efficient (less than 10 Watt peak) three channel (visible + long wave infrared) camera system. The SmartCam integrates all off-the-shelf optics, computing and detectors, so it is defined by software and the system design. CBON-SA/CBONS-FIST. Researching the construct that High fidelity observers (HFOs) who submit quality assured and coordinated observations on biophysical variables that can be integrated with data from other observing systems. Connected to USCG Command via Austere environment comms, CBONS data adds to Arctic Information from the tactical edge.

31 Hosting and Supporting other Arctic Workshops In addition to presenting at a variety of Arctic related research forums and hosting specific workshops, ADAC has hosted and supported workshops and symposiums that benefit the communities of Arctic operators and researchers.....within the U.S. and internationally Goal: advance knowledge in the forums and provide focused knowledge products following

32 Operator driven research workshops a tool to advance capabilities useful for U.S. Coast Guard and other Arctic mariners ADAC s Arctic-related Incidents of National Significance (Arctic IoNS). Arctic IoNS 2016: Coping with a disabled large cruise vessel in Arctic waters. Arctic IoNS 2017: Responding to a large oil spill just as winter sea ice was advancing. Arctic IoNS 2019: Complex two part event, disabled container ship and earthquake.

33 Arctic IoNS: A process! Road to workshop By the numbers Arctic IoNS Responding to a Disabled Cruise Ship in Arctic Waters 1 X Preceding USCG Table Top Exercise. 6 X Facets/Themes. 5 X Research Panels. 4 X Breakout Groups. 20 X Research Questions. 1 X Knowledge Product. 1 X Request for Proposal. 12 X Project Proposals. 2 X Approved Projects. Arctic IoNS Coping with the Unthinkable, an Arctic Maritime Oil Spill 4 X Preceding Scenario building Teleconferences. 6 X Facets/Themes. 2 X Research Panels. 6 X Breakout Groups. 35 X Research Tasks. 1 X Knowledge Product. 1 X Request for Proposal. 22 X Project Proposals. 5 X [Almost] Approved Projects (Anticipating 3-5).

34 ADAC s Newest Arctic IoNS...May 2019 ADAC is planning a complex Arctic IoNS to address shortfalls/challenges in: Arctic Communications Arctic Maritime Domain Awareness Latent detection of marine spills Supporting Logistics Response Area Contingency Plans Workshop plans: Advance Alaska Native Consultation in Nome Plenary, Tabletop/computer guided simulation and Breakout Groups Follow-on RFP

35 Arctic Medium and Long Term Environment (MaLTE) Workshops Tailored workshops that Look long term to identify emerging trends, challenges and opportunities MaLTE 2017: Arctic University of Alaska Fairbanks MaLTE 2018: Arctic in the distant future gaining Alaska Native Insights to Challenges anticipated across Maritime and Coastal Regions CANUS MaLTE 2018: North American Arctic Maritime and Environmental Security In support of HQ U.S. Coast Guard Evergreen (for future concepts) and HQ U.S. Coast Guard Arctic Advisors to the Commandant. Goal: Produce Knowledge Products focused on USCG needs

36 Arctic Futures Workshop, Nome, Mar 2018 ADAC s follow-on to the May 2017 Arctic 2030 Needs of the North conference at UAF. Workshop: Arctic in the Distant future gaining Alaskan Native insight to challenges anticipated across Maritime and Coastal Regions March Event preceded the Western Alaska Interdisciplinary Science Conference. Goal achieved: Listen, learn, and compile a workshop knowledge product useful for DHS, USCG and other Federal agencies working Arctic strategy and policy participants facilitated by a multi-disciplined planning team Remarkable support from City of Nome

37 ADAC s most recent MaLTE workshop North American Arctic Maritime & Environmental Security Focused as a CANUS traditional security integrated to environmental security challenges, concerns and opportunities. A comprehensive CANUS collaborative recommendations for policy makers in Washington D.C. and Ottawa Sep 2018, Gorsuch Commons University of Alaska Anchorage Report released 9 Jan 2019

38 ADAC s next Arctic MaLTE workshop In association with ADAC s Arctic Summer Intern Project, the Center will conduct a Arctic Young adult Focused event. Focus is Economic security...and introducing the construct of ocean technologies as an organizing construct Planning to late February 2019 Workshop will be held in Pt Barrow Alaska, approx June 2019.

39 Preparing the next generation for HSE..ADAC Fellows ADAC Student Fellows Program. ADAC s Fellows are undergraduate and graduate students across the ADAC Research Network that supports Operator Driven research for the Center. This includes: Approved project research support. Center activity research (such as workshop reports and literature reviews). Individual research activity (with assigned ADAC mentor) Minority Serving Institute participation. Summer Internships.

40 ADAC s Arctic Summer Intern Project (ASIP) The first edition of ASIP (a 10 week program) was conducted in summer 2018 which involved: Student orientation to U.S. Federal, and State of Alaska Arctic oriented mission agencies in Anchorage 12 Day Arctic Field Research Mission hosted at the Barrow Arctic Research Center, North Slope Borough Alaska Follow-on, tailored programs for each student that involved individual research efforts, aligned to Student goals and education program. Planning underway for ASIP week in Anchorage, 2 weeks at Pt Barrow...7 weeks of tailored research following

41 A tool for engagement ADAC s Customers and Partner s Roundtable On a quarterly basis, ADAC conducts a Customers and Partner s Roundtable. These events are conduct in order to facilitate interaction with the following entities: U.S. Coast Guard Project Champions, U.S. Coast Guard Stakeholders and advocates, Other DHS maritime mission communities, U.S. Federal and Canadian government officials, State of Alaska and local officials, Academic/research and industry professionals from across the U.S. and Canada.

42 ADAC s Annual Meeting showcasing Center s efforts and progress In accordance with ADAC s Annual workplans The Center conducts an annual meeting in Washington D.C. at HQ USCG. This Annual meeting seeks to facilitate interaction with the following entities: U.S. Coast Guard Project Champions, U.S. Coast Guard Stakeholders and advocates, Other DHS maritime mission communities, U.S. Federal officials, State of Alaska and local officials, Academic/research and industry professionals from across the U.S. International guests per prior coordination.

43 ADAC steadily advancing to provide operator driven S&T research ADAC s efforts can help to reduce risk, improve safety, increase awareness, increase decision precision. ADAC will continue to seek research that addresses shortfalls and gaps as the priority. ADAC will seek to leverage prior investments to find suitable futures as practically as possible ADAC will prosecute approved investigation to develop, and transition in order to field capability. We believe in our mission and sincerely strive to deliver.

44 Ready for Questions & Discussion Thank you for your attention!

45 Research for the Arctic Operator For Today and For the Future