The US Navy’s approach to submarine rescue is moving from the sea surface independent, Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicles Mystic and Avalon, to a new, tethered, mobile, pressurized rescue module approach called the Submarine Rescue Diving and  Recompression System (SRDRS).  Phoenix was competitively selected to maintain the complex sub-systems comprising SRDRS in a constant state of mission readiness, and to support the operation of the SRDRS in time of need.

The primary elements comprising SRDRS are a Pressurized Rescue Module (PRM), and a Surface Decompression System (SDS).  The PRM, remotely controlled from a topside control console, will descend to the submarine, mate with the escape hatch, and transfer the crew under pressure, if necessary, from the disabled submarine to the SDS.  The entire system is designed to be air transported anywhere in the world to effect emergency rescue operations.

As elements of SRDRS are being delivered, Phoenix is working with the US Navy setting up the maintenance support depot, establishing an integrated logistics system, and assisting in efforts to achieve system certification.  The system is currently scheduled to be fully operational in 2006.

Phoenix assembled an elite team consisting of OceanWorks International, Inc., Perot Systems - Government Services, Inc., and Resource Consultants, Inc. to perform this critical work in cooperation with and on behalf of the US Navy.