Teledyne Webb Research Wins Navy Contract for APEX Profiling Floats

8 September 2026
Edited By: Haley McQueen

Teledyne Webb Research has been awarded a contract by the US Navy's Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO) for the production and delivery of APEX profiling floats. The contract has a total potential value of up to $51.1 million over a three-year ordering period.

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The contract provides for the manufacture and delivery of APEX profiling floats in accordance with contract requirements established by NAVOCEANO.

APEX profiling floats provide unattended measurements of temperature, salinity, and pressure throughout the water column, operating to depths of 2,000 meters. Designed for both air and surface deployment, including parachute-assisted aircraft launch, the systems enable rapid ocean data acquisition in remote and operationally complex environments.

For 28 years, Teledyne Webb Research has supplied APEX floats to NAVOCEANO, as part of their support of oceanographic data collection for government, research, and operational customers. This contract extends the company’s long-standing commitment to ocean observation through the development and manufacture of autonomous observing systems.