WHITEHEAD ALENIA SISTEMI SUBACQUEI (WASS - A Finmeccanica Company) is one of the 
leading Italian Company of Defence whose facility located in Livorno, Genoa and 
Naples - Italy houses all the equipments, laboratories and resources for the product design 
and development, quality assurance (at NATO level), and environmental testing activities.
WHITEHEAD ALENIA currently employ 450 people, mainly graduate engineers working on 
design and integration.

WASS is widely recognised for its excellence in the areas of system 
engineering for integrated systems:
• A244/S lightweight torpedo
• MU/90 lightweight torpedo
• "Black Shark" heavyweight torpedo
• Torpedo counter-measure for both surface vessels and submarines
• Active / passive HM / towed sonars
• Underwater surveillance 
• Tracking and noise measurement test ranges 
• Integrated antimine warfare
• Dipping sonars for the helicopters

FINMECCANICA, with ALENIA DIFESA, AMS (ALENIA MARCONI SYSTEMS) and MBDA, 
is Italy’s leading defence and electronics company and is primarily involved in the design, 
development and production of missile systems, avionics and equipment, electro-optical, 
weapon systems, airborne and naval weaponry, battle tanks, armoured vehicles, surface and 
sub-surface naval systems, unmanned aerial vehicles for training and surveillance, simulators, 
command and control systems, air traffic management systems and radars for defence and 
civil applications. 
ALENIA DIFESA comprises: Otobreda Division, Avionic Systems and Equipment Division, 
WHITEHEAD ALENIA SISTEMI SUBACQUEI S.p.A (WASS) and International Naval Systems Division.