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SOSUS

Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) was the original name for a submarine detection system based on passive sonar developed by the United States Navy to track Soviet submarines. The system's true nature was classified with the name and acronym SOSUS classified as well. The unclassified name Project Caesar was used to cover the installation of the system…

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"Caesar fleet"

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Post-Cold War

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SOSUS

Nodes132
Edges131
Triples260
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.015152
Components1

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SOSUS

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related to External links · 39
SOSUS → American Scientists, Archived, Building, CAESAR FleetThe Terminal Equipment, Deep Water, Doherty Earth Observatory, Edward, Federation, Intelligence Resource ProgramNavy, IUSS, Joe Worzel, Lamont, Letter, LOFARGRAM, Monitoring World's Oceans, NAVFAC Lewes, Navy Sound Surveillance System, No, Palisades Geophysical Institute, Past IUSS Sites Archived
related to Security · 37
SOSUS → Both, COMOCEANSYSLANT, COMOCEANSYSPAC, COMUNDERSEASURVLANT, COMUNDERSEASURVPAC, COSL, COSP, CUSL, CUSP, Despite, Fleet Analysis, Hunt, Integrated Undersea Surveillance System, IUSS, Jezebel, Michael, Naval Facilities, Naval Facility, Naval Research, Navy
related to Initial installations · 32
SOSUS → Alert, An, Atlantic, Bahamas, British, Bureau, BuShips, Captain, Eleuthera, Ensign Joseph, Father, From, Hawaii, In, It, January, Kelly, Meanwhile, Navy, November
related to Research · 32
SOSUS → A's, A2, American Telephone, AN/SSQ-28, As, AT, Bell Laboratories, Bell Telephone Laboratories, CODAR, COrrelation Detection And Ranging, Hartwell, It, Jezebel, Jezebel-LOFAR, Julie, LOFAR, Low Frequency Analysis, Low Frequency Analyzer, Naval Research, Office
related to Operational systems · 23
SOSUS → Bell Labs, By, Caesar Phase III, Caesar Phase IV, California, Digital Spectrum Analysis, DSA, Eleuthera, In June, In September, Lightweight Undersea Components, LUSC, Naval Facilities, Naval Facility, Naval Facility Centerville Beach, Naval Ocean Processing Facility, NAVFAC, New, NOPF, SB
related to history · 20
SOSUS → As, Committee, Deputy Chairman, Hartwell, Massachusetts Institute, MIT, National Academy, Navy, Pennsylvania's, Project Hartwell, Sciences, SOFAR, Soviet, Technology, That, The Hartwell, Undersea Warfare, University, US, US Navy
related to Espionage · 13
SOSUS → Cold War, Hungarian-Canadian, In, John Anthony Walker, John's, Naval Station Argentia, Newfoundland, Officer, Soviet Intelligence, Soviet Union, St, Stephen Joseph Ratkai, US Navy Chief Warrant
related to Events · 13
SOSUS → Atlantic, GIUK, Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom, In, July, NAVFAC Barbados, North Atlantic, Norway, Soviet, The, United Kingdom, USS George Washington, When USS Thresher
related to Post-Cold War · 13
SOSUS → Advanced Deployable System, Although, By, Changes, Cold War, Fixed Distributed System, IUSS, IUSS/SOSUS, Soviet, Surveillance Towed Array Sensor, System, The, US Navy
related to Artemis · 10
SOSUS → Artemis, Caesar, Frederick, Hunt, It, Jezebel, May, Michael, That, The

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system systems naval facility navfac new atlantic cable arrays array surveillance submarine project navy first pacific processing ocean submarines shore

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Ocean Technicianinstance ofand terms0.80text
the split array in which a single line array was divided into segmentsinstance ofNew signal processing capabilities allowed for innovations0.80text
each separately processedinstance ofNew signal processing capabilities allowed for innovations0.80text
then electronically recombined to form narrower beams for better bearinginstance ofNew signal processing capabilities allowed for innovations0.80text
cross fixes between arraysinstance ofNew signal processing capabilities allowed for innovations0.80text
in 2009 when Joint Maritime Facilityinstance ofFurther consolidation takes place0.80text
Stinstance ofFurther consolidation takes place0.80text
the Surveillance Towed Array Sensor Systeminstance ofand systems deployable on a theater basis0.80text
Advanced Deployable Systeminstance ofand systems deployable on a theater basis0.80text
SOSUSrelated to ArtemisArtemis0.60section
SOSUSrelated to ArtemisIt0.60section
SOSUSrelated to ArtemisThe0.60section

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