D-TA’s technical presentation describes a DTA-4100 sensor-interface architecture for minehunting and dipping-sonar applications, with near-sensor digitization and optical links to processing computers. The illustrated Halifax configuration is explicitly labelled suggested. It is a documented integration concept and acoustic-processing capability, rather than proof of an installed Halifax sonar system.
Technical detail
Core features
DTA-4100 acoustic sensor-interface units close to the sensor array
Synchronized units and 10 GbE fibre links to processing servers
Recording and playback within the network-centric processing architecture
Explicitly proposed minehunting and dipping-sonar configuration
Mine countermeasures
Naval mine warfare
Underwater systems
MCM
Use & integration
Recorded applications
Minehunting sonar processing
Dipping-sonar processing
Acoustic test and evaluation
Deployable maritime sensor systems
These describe the reviewed application scope, not confirmed deployments, released requirements or procurement eligibility.
Evidence of maturity
Historical technical reference and proposed platform application. ISED corroborates completed sensor-processing R&D; no inspected source establishes acceptance of the suggested Halifax installation.
Commercial availability
Confirm current DTA-4100 support, sonar interfaces and delivery scope with D-TA. The 2026 catalogue’s RF/EMSO focus does not establish either sonar discontinuation or current configuration availability.
Integration and verification
Readiness
A technology readiness level is not established by the reviewed public sources.
Reviewed connections
No reviewed Mission area or released Defence need connection is currently published.
Original sources 4 linked records
These records support this capability and its published Mission area and Defence need connections. A source count is not a count of independent confirmations.
D-TA’s older technical presentation describes synchronized DTA-4100 acoustic receive/transmit units connected to processing servers over 10 GbE fibre, with near-sensor digitization. Page 22 labels minehunting and dipping sonar for Halifax as Suggested; it is an integration proposal, not a documented installed Canadian configuration.
Supports: Capability · core features
D-TA’s older technical presentation describes synchronized DTA-4100 acoustic receive/transmit units connected to processing servers over 10 GbE fibre, with near-sensor digitization. Page 22 labels minehunting and dipping sonar for Halifax as Suggested; it is an integration proposal, not a documented installed Canadian configuration.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
D-TA’s older technical presentation describes synchronized DTA-4100 acoustic receive/transmit units connected to processing servers over 10 GbE fibre, with near-sensor digitization. Page 22 labels minehunting and dipping sonar for Halifax as Suggested; it is an integration proposal, not a documented installed Canadian configuration.
Supports: Capability · core features
D-TA’s older technical presentation describes synchronized DTA-4100 acoustic receive/transmit units connected to processing servers over 10 GbE fibre, with near-sensor digitization. Page 22 labels minehunting and dipping sonar for Halifax as Suggested; it is an integration proposal, not a documented installed Canadian configuration.
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
D-TA’s older technical presentation describes synchronized DTA-4100 acoustic receive/transmit units connected to processing servers over 10 GbE fibre, with near-sensor digitization. Page 22 labels minehunting and dipping sonar for Halifax as Suggested; it is an integration proposal, not a documented installed Canadian configuration.
Supports: Capability · summary
D-TA’s older technical presentation describes synchronized DTA-4100 acoustic receive/transmit units connected to processing servers over 10 GbE fibre, with near-sensor digitization. Page 22 labels minehunting and dipping sonar for Halifax as Suggested; it is an integration proposal, not a documented installed Canadian configuration.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
D-TA’s older technical presentation describes synchronized DTA-4100 acoustic receive/transmit units connected to processing servers over 10 GbE fibre, with near-sensor digitization. Page 22 labels minehunting and dipping sonar for Halifax as Suggested; it is an integration proposal, not a documented installed Canadian configuration.
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
D-TA’s older technical presentation describes synchronized DTA-4100 acoustic receive/transmit units connected to processing servers over 10 GbE fibre, with near-sensor digitization. Page 22 labels minehunting and dipping sonar for Halifax as Suggested; it is an integration proposal, not a documented installed Canadian configuration.
Supports: Capability · core features
D-TA’s older technical presentation describes synchronized DTA-4100 acoustic receive/transmit units connected to processing servers over 10 GbE fibre, with near-sensor digitization. Page 22 labels minehunting and dipping sonar for Halifax as Suggested; it is an integration proposal, not a documented installed Canadian configuration.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
D-TA’s older technical presentation describes synchronized DTA-4100 acoustic receive/transmit units connected to processing servers over 10 GbE fibre, with near-sensor digitization. Page 22 labels minehunting and dipping sonar for Halifax as Suggested; it is an integration proposal, not a documented installed Canadian configuration.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
D-TA’s older technical presentation describes synchronized DTA-4100 acoustic receive/transmit units connected to processing servers over 10 GbE fibre, with near-sensor digitization. Page 22 labels minehunting and dipping sonar for Halifax as Suggested; it is an integration proposal, not a documented installed Canadian configuration.
Supports: Capability · capability type
D-TA’s older technical presentation describes synchronized DTA-4100 acoustic receive/transmit units connected to processing servers over 10 GbE fibre, with near-sensor digitization. Page 22 labels minehunting and dipping sonar for Halifax as Suggested; it is an integration proposal, not a documented installed Canadian configuration.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
D-TA’s older technical presentation describes synchronized DTA-4100 acoustic receive/transmit units connected to processing servers over 10 GbE fibre, with near-sensor digitization. Page 22 labels minehunting and dipping sonar for Halifax as Suggested; it is an integration proposal, not a documented installed Canadian configuration.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
D-TA’s older technical presentation describes synchronized DTA-4100 acoustic receive/transmit units connected to processing servers over 10 GbE fibre, with near-sensor digitization. Page 22 labels minehunting and dipping sonar for Halifax as Suggested; it is an integration proposal, not a documented installed Canadian configuration.
Supports: Capability · technology readiness level
D-TA’s older technical presentation describes synchronized DTA-4100 acoustic receive/transmit units connected to processing servers over 10 GbE fibre, with near-sensor digitization. Page 22 labels minehunting and dipping sonar for Halifax as Suggested; it is an integration proposal, not a documented installed Canadian configuration.
Supports: Capability · maturity
D-TA’s older technical presentation describes synchronized DTA-4100 acoustic receive/transmit units connected to processing servers over 10 GbE fibre, with near-sensor digitization. Page 22 labels minehunting and dipping sonar for Halifax as Suggested; it is an integration proposal, not a documented installed Canadian configuration.
Supports: Capability · commercial availability
D-TA’s older technical presentation describes synchronized DTA-4100 acoustic receive/transmit units connected to processing servers over 10 GbE fibre, with near-sensor digitization. Page 22 labels minehunting and dipping sonar for Halifax as Suggested; it is an integration proposal, not a documented installed Canadian configuration.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
D-TA’s older technical presentation describes synchronized DTA-4100 acoustic receive/transmit units connected to processing servers over 10 GbE fibre, with near-sensor digitization. Page 22 labels minehunting and dipping sonar for Halifax as Suggested; it is an integration proposal, not a documented installed Canadian configuration.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
D-TA’s older technical presentation describes synchronized DTA-4100 acoustic receive/transmit units connected to processing servers over 10 GbE fibre, with near-sensor digitization. Page 22 labels minehunting and dipping sonar for Halifax as Suggested; it is an integration proposal, not a documented installed Canadian configuration.
Supports: Capability · name
D-TA’s older technical presentation describes synchronized DTA-4100 acoustic receive/transmit units connected to processing servers over 10 GbE fibre, with near-sensor digitization. Page 22 labels minehunting and dipping sonar for Halifax as Suggested; it is an integration proposal, not a documented installed Canadian configuration.
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
D-TA’s older technical presentation describes synchronized DTA-4100 acoustic receive/transmit units connected to processing servers over 10 GbE fibre, with near-sensor digitization. Page 22 labels minehunting and dipping sonar for Halifax as Suggested; it is an integration proposal, not a documented installed Canadian configuration.
Supports: Capability · add child
D-TA's technical portfolio documents Canadian signal-acquisition, recording and real-time processing systems for minehunting and dipping sonar applications, complementing its broader network-attached acoustic processing record.
ISED’s SADI success story documents completion of D-TA’s network-centric sensor-processing R&D and its configurable 10 GbE architecture for sonar, acoustic, radar and radio signals. It corroborates a completed technology-development programme without proving a particular Halifax sonar installation or current product support terms.
The August 2026 D-TA catalogue concentrates on EMSO/RF systems. Its history credits founder Dipak Roy’s earlier ICS company with an AEGIS sonar upgrade before a 2003 acquisition. That historical ICS programme must not be represented as a D-TA contract or current D-TA sonar delivery.
D-TA current products focus on EW threat emulation, over-the-horizon radar, RF/IF record and playback, and SIGINT. Its Ottawa international headquarters and US office remain published; current RF/EMSO emphasis does not by itself prove discontinuation of the historical sonar portfolio.
Public sources cited · Facts and assessments kept separate · Human review
ISED’s SADI success story documents completion of D-TA’s network-centric sensor-processing R&D and its configurable 10 GbE architecture for sonar, acoustic, radar and radio signals. It corroborates a completed technology-development programme without proving a particular Halifax sonar installation or current product support terms.
