SeeByte Announces Sale to the Royal Netherlands Navy
News Release
SeeByte Ltd
April 23, 2012
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lang=EN-GB><FONT face=Calibri>Edinburgh, Scotland, 20<SUP>th</SUP> April 2012 -
SeeByte, the global leader in creating smart software technology for unmanned
systems, has announced that it will provide the Royal Netherlands Navy with
twenty new licences of SeeTrack Military.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
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lang=EN-GB><FONT face=Calibri>This significant purchase has come after the Royal
Netherlands Navy’s successful use of SeeTrack Military over the past six years.
The licences will be deployed to the Diving and Explosive Ordnance Disposal
Group in Den Helder, the BE/NL Minewarfare school Eguermin in Ostend, Belgium
and to researchers at the Netherland’s TNO.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-GB><FONT face=Calibri>Ioseba Tena, Sales Manager at SeeByte commented:
“The Royal Netherlands Navy has always been one of our biggest customers and I’m
exceptionally pleased that SeeByte can offer them the software solutions needed
to ensure safe and efficient mission planning and execution. We are keen to work
together with the Netherlands MOD to ensure all of their requirements are met by
our software.”<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-GB><FONT face=Calibri>Lt Cdr Guido Fretz, representative of the
Netherlands Ministry of Defence, commented “Our navy has used SeeTrack Military
for many years now to assist with mission planning and post processing of data
from our REMUS AUVs and our Shark Navigators. We believe that it is a very
effective package available to us to help run our MCM and harbour protection
missions, and train the operators. SeeByte also offers first rate support, which
is one of the reasons why we have chosen to accompany our licence purchase with
additional support and maintenance for the next five years.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"
lang=EN-GB>SeeByte’s SeeTrack Military software is an open-architecture platform
solution for rapid on-site analysis and data fusion that can be easily adapted
for specific user needs.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Developed
as a mission-planning, monitoring and post-processing tool, this software
technology has been successfully deployed on numerous surveys, military and
security operations and scientific experiments. </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-GB>It is also easily integrated to allow data
export into other tactical software, like MEDAL or MINTACS, as was proven with
the COIN solution used by the U.S. Navy's Explosive Ordnance Disposal
teams.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"
lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"
lang=EN-GB><FONT face=Calibri>ABOUT SEEBYTE<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"
lang=EN-GB><FONT face=Calibri>Founded in Edinburgh, Scotland, SeeByte has been
creating the most advanced awareness control systems for the latest generation
of unmanned systems, including autonomous underwater vehicles and remotely
operated vehicles since 2001. These technologies have been successfully
integrated into a multitude of solutions for the military & security and
offshore & subsea sectors. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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lang=EN-GB><FONT face=Calibri>Edinburgh, Scotland, 20<SUP>th</SUP> April 2012 -
SeeByte, the global leader in creating smart software technology for unmanned
systems, has announced that it will provide the Royal Netherlands Navy with
twenty new licences of SeeTrack Military.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"
lang=EN-GB><FONT face=Calibri>This significant purchase has come after the Royal
Netherlands Navy’s successful use of SeeTrack Military over the past six years.
The licences will be deployed to the Diving and Explosive Ordnance Disposal
Group in Den Helder, the BE/NL Minewarfare school Eguermin in Ostend, Belgium
and to researchers at the Netherland’s TNO.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"
lang=EN-GB><FONT face=Calibri>Ioseba Tena, Sales Manager at SeeByte commented:
“The Royal Netherlands Navy has always been one of our biggest customers and I’m
exceptionally pleased that SeeByte can offer them the software solutions needed
to ensure safe and efficient mission planning and execution. We are keen to work
together with the Netherlands MOD to ensure all of their requirements are met by
our software.”<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"
lang=EN-GB><FONT face=Calibri>Lt Cdr Guido Fretz, representative of the
Netherlands Ministry of Defence, commented “Our navy has used SeeTrack Military
for many years now to assist with mission planning and post processing of data
from our REMUS AUVs and our Shark Navigators. We believe that it is a very
effective package available to us to help run our MCM and harbour protection
missions, and train the operators. SeeByte also offers first rate support, which
is one of the reasons why we have chosen to accompany our licence purchase with
additional support and maintenance for the next five years.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
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face=Calibri><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"
lang=EN-GB>SeeByte’s SeeTrack Military software is an open-architecture platform
solution for rapid on-site analysis and data fusion that can be easily adapted
for specific user needs.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Developed
as a mission-planning, monitoring and post-processing tool, this software
technology has been successfully deployed on numerous surveys, military and
security operations and scientific experiments. </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-GB>It is also easily integrated to allow data
export into other tactical software, like MEDAL or MINTACS, as was proven with
the COIN solution used by the U.S. Navy's Explosive Ordnance Disposal
teams.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"
lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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lang=EN-GB><FONT face=Calibri>ABOUT SEEBYTE<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"
lang=EN-GB><FONT face=Calibri>Founded in Edinburgh, Scotland, SeeByte has been
creating the most advanced awareness control systems for the latest generation
of unmanned systems, including autonomous underwater vehicles and remotely
operated vehicles since 2001. These technologies have been successfully
integrated into a multitude of solutions for the military & security and
offshore & subsea sectors. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>