SST awarded contract by Snohomish County PUD
April 20, 2011
Snohomish County PUD No. 1 has awarded SST a contract for $600,000 for the Admiralty Inlet Tidal Energy Project. This project is to provide marine engineering and geotechnical services to support design and construction contracting and installation oversight for the tidal energy project near Admiralty Inlet near Keystone, WA.

SST awarded task by NFESC
March 10, 2011
Naval Facilities Engineering Services Center (NFESC) in Port Hueneme, CA awarded SST a task for $320,508 to provide engineering and planning support for a Surface Ship Radiated Noise Measurement (SSRNM) array to be installed at the Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC).

SST awarded a subcontract by Lockheed Martin Corporation
September 20, 2010, August 21, 2009
Continuing the Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) program with NFESC, Lockheed Martin has awarded a subcontract to SST for $257,285 for Phase II continuing design of the structure subsystems, corrosion management, ocean engineering, anchoring and mooring, environmental planning and test and installation planning. Phase I subcontract equaled $1,353,937.

SST awarded task by NFESC
September 7, 2010
Naval Facilities Engineering Services Center (NFESC) in Port Hueneme, CA awarded SST a task for $2,487,935 to continue with Phase 3 of the Expeditionary Swimmer Defense System (XSDS), that provides base security from waterborne intruders. In Phase 1 SST developed a preliminary design for the XSDS instrumented barrier system. In Phase 2 SST designed, fabricated and demonstrated a full-scale prototype system with gate functions. Phase 3 will continue to advance the design, fabricate and demonstrate the fully functional system. A pilot installation has recently become operational on the waterside of a nuclear power plant.

SST awarded Contract by QinetiQ North America (QNA)
June 23, 2010
QinetiQ North America awarded an engineering services contract for $440,000 to provide ocean and cable engineering support for the DARPA Deep Sea Operations Program (DSOP). Engineering services included the specification, procurement, and test of fiber-optic sensing cables and the planning and execution of deep water tests at the Navy's Acoustic Research Detachment at Lake Pend Oreille.
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SST awarded Subcontract by Columbia Power Technologies (CPT)
May 25, 2010
SST installed Columbia Power Technologies' prototype wave energy converter (SeaRay) in Puget Sound for testing and operations during the winter season of 2010-2011, shown in the image below. This installation included the three-point mooring system, the buoy and an acoustic-wave-and-current profiler (AWAC). The SeaRay and AWAC were recovered and reinstalled several times for brief periods of data collection, modifications and inspections.

SST awarded task by NFESC
April 16, 2010
Naval Facilities Engineering Services Center (NFESC) in Port Hueneme, CA awarded SST a task for $1,300,872 to provide engineering services to develop and test a Kinetic Hydropower System (KHPS) tidal turbine at the Roosevelt Island, NY site and also continue development for the Puget Sound KHPS.

On-going multiple tasks awarded by NFESC
August 6, 2010, July 16, 2010, September 14, 2009
Naval Facilities Engineering Services Center (NFESC) in Port Hueneme, CA has awarded SST multiple tasks for the STAFAC (South TOTO [Tongue of the Ocean] Acoustic Facility) for installing and maintaining a pair of tri-moor acoustic arrays installed at the south end of AUTEC in 4,000 ft. of water, with several cables to junction boxes and to shore. This ongoing task started in 2005 and has included 25 tasks totaling over $12.7M.

SST awarded contract to support NOAA development of technology
September 18, 2009
SST has been awarded a $144,000 contract to support NOAA development of technology. SST to enhance NOAA capabilities to conduct surveys of fish populations.

SST awarded contract by Naval Facilities Engineering Services Center
September 11, 2009
SST is part of a team that has been awarded one of five multiple award contracts, worth up to $30M, by Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center. The contracts are focused on Antiterrorism and Force Protection (ATFP) engineering services. SST will provide engineering services for vulnerability and risk assessments, installation perimeter security studies, and security force deployment studies.

SST awarded Oregon Wave Energy Trust contract
July 24, 2009
Oregon Wave Energy Trust announced today that Sound & Sea Technology (SST) of Lynnwood, WA was awarded a contract to study wave energy device anchoring and mooring techniques applicable to the full range of wave energy devices that might be installed in Oregon waters in the future. For the OWET contract, SST teamed with National Renewable Energy Centre (NaREC) of Northumberland, UK and with Fugro West.

SST awarded OTEC contract
July 7, 2009
The U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) recently awarded Lockheed Martin an $8.12 million contract to further develop Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) technology, which leverages the temperature difference between warmer water at the ocean's surface and colder water below to produce renewable and reliable power.

Under the contract, SST will work with a Lockheed Martin-led industry team to develop critical OTEC system components and further mature its design for an OTEC pilot plant, an incremental step in developing large-scale utility plants. A key part of maturing the plant design includes developing an interface between the system's cold water pipe and the platform.

SST awarded Navy contract
May 27, 2009
SST has been awarded one of five multiple award contracts worth up to $250,000,000 by the Naval Facilities Engineering Services Center (NFESC). SST will provide Ocean Facilities Engineering Services in support of various NFESC Ocean Projects.

SST awarded contract by Snohomish County PUD #1
April 24, 2009
SST awarded a $222,000 Professional Services contract by Snohomish County PUD #1 to provide marine engineering services for their tidal energy project in Puget Sound. The contract extends through 2010. The Admiralty Inlet site was chosen by the PUD to provide renewable energy using tidal in-stream energy conversion (TISEC) to Snohomish County PUD customers. This demonstration project is one of two in Puget Sound for which SST is providing marine services.  The services include site survey support, site selection recommendations, cable route design, cable landing design and system installation design and support services.

SST awarded a $1.19 million Navy contract
September 25, 2008
SST awarded a $1.19 million Navy contract for development of the Expeditionary Swimmer Defense System (XSDS).

SST awarded a $2.8 million contract
May 13, 2008
SST awarded $2.8 million dollar contract through SeaPort-e for Kinetic Hydropower System development. SST will work with the Navy and Verdant Power to install a demonstration tidal energy project in Puget Sound.

A New Office in East Wenatchee
March 2008
SST has opened a new office in East Wenatchee to create opportunities to develop a customer base to include utilities, inland military bases and the Hanford reservation.

A New Administrative Office
August 5, 2007
SST has moved into a new location in Lynnwood, WA. Our new office is a home that has been completely restored and renovated to accommodate our administrative office staff. The house was built in 1933 and is known in the neighborhood as “The Stone House” - see photo below.

SST is awarded a five-year GSA Contract
August 1, 2007
SST has been awarded a five-year contract with General Services Administration (GSA). Agencies can now order our services through GSA. Click here for more information regarding GSA contracts.

Edmonds firm wins Navy bid
November 2005
Edmonds, Washington - Sea Technology Inc. has secured a five-year military contract worth up to $29.5 million to provide ocean engineering services for U.S. naval facilities around the world. Read the full article.

Home-based firm a world class player
November 2005
Edmonds, Washington - Sound & Sea Technology’s latest feat - winning a five-year $29.5 million contract from the Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center in Port Hueneme, California - is just the latest in a string of successes for the Edmonds home-based company. Read the full article.

Navy Awards SST $13.5M Contract
Edmonds, Washington - When residents here send e-mail to relatives in Asia or make business calls to Europe, the bits of information and voice pulses often shoot through fiber-optic cables crisscrossing the oceans. Read the full article reprinted from the Herald.