What does SOSUS stand for?

Sound Surveillance System

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Navy partially declassified its Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS), a hydrophone network built to monitor Soviet submarines.

A lone voice crying in the watery wilderness

The Sound Surveillance System followed Soviet submarines.

Whales use song and sound map to navigate the oceans

The company got a piece of the Sound Surveillance System project.

Profile: Dan Alspach

The Surveillance Direction System, awarded in 1991, provides the command, control, communications and intelligence functions for the Integrated Undersea Surveillance System, and combines the capabilities of all its sensors: the Fixed Distributed System, Sound Surveillance System, and Surface Towed Array Sonar System.

LORAL FEDERAL SYSTEMS AUTHORIZED TO PROCEED WITH DEPLOYABLE ...

The discovery enabled the creation of the Navy's highly successful SOund SUrveillance System (SOSUS), which could detect submarines by their faint acoustic signals.

For the Navy, the coast isn't clear: oceanographers mobilize to help ...

Armed with newly acquired access to the Navy's underwater sound surveillance system, U.

Underwater eruption detected in the Pacific

9 million FDS contract modification, Loral will provide additional capabilities to process sensor array data from the Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) using the FDS Shore/Signal Information Processing Segment (SSIPS).

LORAL AWARDED $14.4 MILLION IN CONTRACT MODIFICATIONS FOR FIXED ...

The Navy immediately saw the value of the SOFAR channel, launching Jezebel, which later became the Sound Surveillance System, or SOSUS.

Ears in the Ocean: hydrophones reveal a whole lot of previously ...