ONR coordinates, executes, and promotes the science and technology programs of the United States Navy and Marine Corps through universities, government laboratories, and nonprofit and for-profit organizations.
SOSUS consists of bottom mounted hydrophone arrays connected by undersea communication cables to facilities on shore. The individual arrays are at locations optimized for undistorted long range acoustic propagation.
The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego (SSC San Diego) is a leader in command and control including the technology to collect, transmit, process, display and manage information essential to naval operations.