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The goal of AUVAC is to advance the development, utilization, and integration of AUV systems.

AUVAC is an effort to share information and resources within the AUV community, both nationally

and internationally. Its objective is to grow into a self-sustaining organization funded by its activities

within the international ocean community.

our primary Goal


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What is AuVAC?

AUVAC is a comprehensive online information portal designed to keep the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Community informed through daily delivery of the latest news, views, and developments that matter most. Why is AuVAC the Best online Marketing resource?

Put Simply: AUVAC is the only online source devoted exclusively to Autonomous Underwater Vehicles.

AUVAC delivers exceptional value by providing daily news, headlines, and features selected by respected, independent AUV Experts at no cost to readers.

AUVAC delivers an information rich community designed for AUV professionals, vehicle developers, current and future vehicle users, technology providers, students and members of the general public.

AUVAC engages the industry by offering a powerful open platform that allows industry-leading professionals to engage directly with the market by sharing content related to company and product developments.

AUVAC offers organized and readily searchable content, making it an excellent reference for anyone seeking information on a broad range of Autonomous Underwater vehicle related topics.

AUVAC provides this content free of charge as a service to AUV professionals and stakeholders, allowing our advertisers to easily reach a highly qualified group of professionals that have buying power.

Advertising on AUVAC provides tremendous business-to-business brand visibility.

We encourage you to leverage the unrivaled value of AUVAC and contribute to the success of your business.


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over 100 Years of experience in the undersea world

D. Richard Blidberg

D. Richard Blidberg received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) in 1972. He co-founded the Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory (MSEL) at UNH in 1976. In 1993 the laboratory moved from UNH to Northeastern University where he served as Director of MSEL. Since 1995 he has been Director of the Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute (AUSI) in Lee, NH, which he founded in 1993. He established AUV Associates, LLC in 2000 and continues to be the managing partner. He recently founded the AUV Applications center which he now directs. He has written several papers and reports on unmanned untethered submersible technology, as well as well

as organized 17 international symposia on AUV technology. He has over 100 publications related to AUV technology and served on several science and engineering committees, consulted for a number of companies, and been involved a number of international collaborations. He was an associate editor for the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering for underwater vehicle systems for 15 years.

Alan Beam

Captain Alan Beam is a 26-year veteran of the US Navy. A qualified Nuclear Submariner, he culminated is operational tours with the Command of the fast attack submarine USS Bremerton (SSN-698). As a Materiel Professional Captain Beam served as the DARPA Program Manager for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles UUV. As such, he was responsible for developing the entire breadth of UUV technologies, including multiple programs in Autonomy. The DARPA UUV program successfully transitioned to the Navy, which has developed into the Unmanned Maritime Vehicles Program Office PMS 406.

Since retirement from the Navy, Captain Beam has remained active in the unmanned vehicle community, including Technical Co Chair of an IEEE Oceans conference, and participation in the original ONR USV Study on Minewarfare. Captain Beam is a qualified Materiel Professional, attended the Defense Systems Management College, and holds a Masters Degree in Engineering Management from Catholic University.

Timothy W. Janaitis

Timothy W. Janaitis has 45 years of experience as an ocean industry professional. Early in his career as an oceanographer he participated in manned submersible research projects, and designed and conducted spatial and temporal studies associated with oceanographic circulation patterns in the mid to deep ocean for the U.S. Navy. His experience as a consultant and in positions with private industry focused on the planning, management and conduct of siting investigations and environmental impact assessment for the nuclear power, LNG, mining, and

fisheries industries. More recently, he has managed the national and international marketing and sales functions for engineering organizations designing acoustic based sensors, ROVs, UUVs, and underwater tools, and for marine services companies providing expertise in underwater ship repairs, deep ocean search and recovery, and submarine rescue. He has authored over 20 technical reports, publications and general audience articles. Mr. Janaitis received his BS degree from Cornell University.


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Why is AuVAC the Best Marketing resource for AuV-related

Material?

The goal of AUVAC is to provide an experience that adds value to our users at every opportunity. We compile and share information from several sources and present it in a clear, organized fashion. Our AUV database is unlike any other in existence online. It includes detailed platform information, vehicle specs, and manufacturer information with full search functionality, In addition to our extensive vehicle database we provide a wide range of AUV community news - including information about upcoming industry events - and maintain an active archive of informational pages for over 350 institutions, organizations, and manufacturers within the AUV community. AUVAC also houses a “Job Opportunities” section in which our users can readily access numerous industry-related job postings from around the world.As a result of our commitment to providing value to our users at every turn, we have built, and continue to build, a loyal, focused user base that values AUVAC as the go-to resource for all of their AUV needs.

AUVAC offers several ways for you to increase visibility within the AUV community. Each of our packages has been designed with a specific purpose and specific user-base in mind, and all are tailored to help you gain the most visibility to those you want to reach.

did you know?

We have a database listing of over 250

publications and white papers to help your

research


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North America

Western Europe

Northern Europe

Eastern Asia

Eastern Europe

Other

AUVAC is a global non-profit community students, teachers, companies from all over the globe look to AUVAC for their research needs. A total of 159 Countries has visited the site over 2012. Below are the top 5 Sub-Continents and there visits to AUVAC.

27,107 / 48.85%

4,974 / 8.96%

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Based on 2012 registration information and google Analytics

did you know?

We have a database listing of over 300

publications and white papers to help your

research


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Who visits AuVAC.org?With our growing reputation as the go-to site for AUV related information, AUVAC maintains a broad international user-base. With the constant addition of new vehicles and organizations to our database and our frequent updates of AUV related news and events people from all over the world are being trafficed into AUVAC. Below is a high level breakdown of where people are coming from

What Are Visitors Viewing?People are being driven to AUVAC from numerous search engines and crosslinks throughout the web. From industry operators and technologists to students and professionals AUVAC is the first source they find for quick information on AUVs being manufactured to meet their needs. The graph below represents what visitors are engaging and interacting with on AUVAC.

Asia 17%

europe 25%

institutions 16%

Australia 5%

Technology Search 16%

other 2%

events 19%

Americas 51%

Vehicle Search 49%

Based on 2012 registration information and google Analytics

did you know?

AuVAC has a database

of over 500 companies

and organization

around the world.


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Bronze package: $300 per quarter

Our bronze package allows our members to customize their organization directory listing. • Complete custom directory page (includes skyscraper banner and 2 download buttons)

Custom downloads

Skyscraper Banner


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Silver package: $1,250 per quarter

Our Silver Package is designed to gain maximum exposure throughout all your content hosted on the AUVAC database. • Your organization logo will be highlighted on all news items, AUV spec pages and press

releases related to your organization• Complete custom directory page (includes skyscraper banner and 2 download buttons)• Badge placement on all technologies related to your organization• Homepage news banner (shared with all members)

organization LogoCustom downloads

Community news Logo Homepage news Banner

Skyscraper Banner


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Gold package: $2,250 per quarter

Our premium Gold Package is designed for members who want to be known as supporters and major contributors to the AUV industry. Gold members have all the advantages of the Silver Package but include a few more powerful perks for your organization.• Newsletter badge ad (Our Newsletter goes out to our entire email database)• Personalized newsletter blast that highlights your organization. The newsletter could be

a press release, highlighting a new technology or service your Organization is offering. We will also host your (Our Newsletter goes out to our entire email database and gives direct exposure to your organization)

newsletter Badges newsletter press release

newsletter Skyscraper


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requirements & Conditions:

• Artwork must be submitted ten (10) business days prior to the campaign start date. • Animated giF, JPEg and Flash files ready to upload are accepted. • Referring URl / link must be active at time of submission and indicated with insertion / Placement order. • AUVAC newsletter Do noT support flash and must be submitted as a static JPEg or giF

Standard Banners: Accepted Banner Formats:

• GiF (static or animated) • JPG (static or animated) • Flash • All files must be 90k or less. • Max looping: 3 • Max animation: 15 • Max frame rate for flash : 18fps • audio must be user initiated

* Please note for the AUVAC Newsletters we serve static GIFs and JPGs only. Flash is not accepted. Submission information one-pixel border: AUVAC highly recommends inserting a one-pixel border around the ads that have a white background so the user may be able distinguish it from white background areas of the site.

Referring Url/link and Tracking: AUVAC will not schedule any campaigns with inactive referring URL/link (destination page/site).

Media & Video: All video is encouraged to be supplied to AUVAC as embed scripts. If you cannot supply a video embed AUVAC may assist by uploading the source file to our 3rd party program and embed as neccessary.

We accept the following formats:

Adobe Flash: We support up to Flash version 10 Please include the following:

• Compressed Flash file (*.swf) • A backup GIF or JPEG image file • Banner links must be hardcoded into the .swf file

*AUVAC reserves the right to review and approve all flash ads.

* Please send all content submissions to [email protected]

• .MOV • .MPEG4 • .AVI • .WMV

• .MPEGPS • .FLV • 3GPP • WebM


Leaderboard Banner (728 x 90 pixels)

Skyscraper Banner

(160 x 600 pixels)

Anchor Banner (468 x 60 pixels)

new Member Callout (320 x 250 pixels)

Spotlight

Badge

(180 x 150 pixels)

Logo File

(vector or source file multiple sizes)

Art Specs

Customized Services

AUVAC is pleased to offer our clients the opportunity to customize their services through a partnership with Boldwerks, a leading New England-based design and programming agency. Their team built AUVAC and this deep expertise makes them uniquely qualified to assist with layout, design, copywriting and functionality customization.

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