By John Keller, Military & Aerospace Electronics

PORT HUENEME, Calif., 6 Oct. 2014. U.S. Navy subsea instrument specialists needed optical fiber-based submarine cable to connect deep ocean measurement instruments to shore monitoring stations. They found their solution from Tyco Electronics Subsea Communications LLC (TE SubCom) in Eatontown, N.J.

Officials of the Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center at Port Hueneme, Calif., have awarded a $12.3 million contract to TE SubCom to provide 1,550 kilometers of SL-17 submarine fiber-optic cable.

Navy electro-optical systems designers use the fiber optic cable to connect deep ocean measurement instruments to shore monitoring stations. The contract was announced on 30 Sept. 2014.

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