An ice station was established on a floe in the Beaufort Sea by engineers from the Lab's Ocean Engineering Department to support U.S. Navy and civilian personnel during under-ice exercises with two submarines on site. APL-UW provided all the logistics, underwater acoustic tracking, and under-ice diving functions during the month-long habitation.

The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Seaglider is the result of a collaborative effort between APL-UW and the UW School of Oceanography. These small, free-swimming vehicles can gather environmental data from the ocean for months at a time and transmit it to shore in near-real time via satellite data telemetry.