Technology Licensing Opportunity Acoustic Camera Tender - 142185856

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Country: USA

Summary: Technology Licensing Opportunity Acoustic Camera

Deadline: 30 Jun 2026

Posting Date: 28 May 2026

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Notice Type: Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 142185856

Document Ref. No.: S-129409

Competition: ICB

Financier: Self Financed

Purchaser Ownership: Public

Tender Value: Refer Document

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When water turns murky or dense with mud, sediment or chemistry, optical cameras stop being useful, and operators are left guessing about what lies on the other side of the fluid. The Acoustic Camera from Los Alamos National Laboratory replaces that guesswork with sharp 3D imagery generated from sound, achieving sub-millimeter depth resolution in near real time. Instead of inferring the size and orientation of a submerged object from an impression block or a low-frequency sonar return, an operator receives an actual shape, with depth cues and material hints, on the first pass. The result is faster decisions in environments that have historically been opaque, whether the goal is recovering a lost tool from a wellbore, checking the integrity of a net pen in a turbid fjord, or inspecting submerged infrastructure where flushing or cleaning the surrounding fluid is not an option.
How it Works:
The system operates by transmitting high-frequency ultrasonic pulses—typically in the hundreds of kilohertz range (approximately 100-800 kHz)—into the wellbore toward an object of interest. These sound waves reflect off the object and are captured by a two-dimensional acoustic receiver array. By measuring the time-of-flight and spatial distribution of the returned echoes, onboard digital signal processing reconstructs a detailed 3D image of the object in near real time. Because ultrasound propagates through drilling mud and other optically opaque fluids, the system can generate clear 3D images without requiring fluid replacement or well cleanout.
Technical Description:
Acoustic Camera uses a broadband piezoelectric transducer to insonify the object with frequencies between roughly 100 kHz and 800 kHz. Because attenuation in fluids scales with the square of frequency, this band is chosen as the practical compromise between mud penetration (favoring lower frequencies) and image resolution (favoring higher frequencies). Reflected pulses pass through a compound high-density...
Notice ID: s-129409

Department/Ind. Agency: energy, department of

Sub-tier: energy, department of

Office: triad - doe contractor

Product Service Code: 5845 - underwater sound equipment

NAICS Code: 334511 - Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing

Inactive Dates: jun 30, 2027

Inactive Policy: manual

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