Babcock and its partner SEA have been selected as one of two teams to be awarded a contract for Phase One of the Submarine Communications Buoy (SCB) Technology Demonstrator Programme (TDP).

The TDP programme is to de-risk towed communications buoy technology in order to meet future communications requirements. This first phase is a 14 month simulation and testing contract for the two selected teams each to develop an effective SCB system design, and validate it with model testing. ...