Quiet Please: Mitigating Underwater Noise

Developing a product

Much of ARL’s work has been to develop sonar technologies or model underwater sound. So the bubble curtain is a bit different.

“This was the perfect place to do it, but really nothing like it had been done (at ARL) before,” Wilson said. “We had all the infrastructure to do it.”

To commercialize the bubble curtain, they joined with a business student, who developed a business plan, and law student, who helped with legal aspects of managing the company. The team presented the system to the Texas Venture Labs Venture Expo in May.