SIRENA: national project for a new Synthetic Aperture SONAR

ELT Group announces the awarding of the PNS-2025-R-09 call

A strategic advancement for the national underwater dimension

ELT Group has announced that the SIRENA project (Integrated Solution for National Electroacoustic Reconstruction), submitted by ELT Group as the leading company together with other national companies and research centers, has been awarded the PNS-2025-R-09 call of BATCH 3 of the National Underwater Domain Hub (PNS) for the development of a Synthetic Aperture SONAR that will enable cutting-edge capabilities in underwater environmental monitoring, with important implications, particularly in the protection of critical subsea infrastructures and in the mapping of the seabed.

SIRENA is a project that aims at achieving a national technological sovereignty milestone and will also represent an important reference at a global level.

For Domitilla Benigni, CEO & COO of ELT Group, the awarding of the SIRENA project is a very significant result for ELT Group, placing the company at the forefront of the Underwater dimension for the development of a new product for the national market and with few competitors in the global market.

For the CEO & COO of ELT Group, the SIRENA project represents a major opportunity in the world of unmanned underwater vehicles and confirms the consolidation of the company’s historic mission of asset protection, while at the same time highlighting the strong momentum generated by the National Underwater Domain Hub for the development of innovative solutions in a highly challenging environment such as the Underwater sector.

Numerous national companies and research centers participate in the SIRENA project: Elettronica S.p.A. (now ELT Group) – see ELT Group and Elettronica S.p.A. –, STAM S.r.l., Graal Tech S.r.l., CO.L.MAR S.r.l., ELDES S.r.l., Key-Biz S.r.l., BLUETHINK S.p.A., CNIT – National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications, University of Genoa – ISME Interuniversity Center of Integrated Systems for the Marine Environment, and the University of Naples (UNINA) – CeSMA Advanced Metrological and Technological Services Center.

 

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