The Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) International Tsunami Buoy Team deployed an SAIC Tsunami Buoy (STB) system in the Bay of Bengal on Dec. 17, 2009. The deployment was the result of a contract awarded to SAIC last May by the Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, Government of the Kingdom of Thailand to replace a NOAA Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting Tsunamis (DART®) buoy system provided to the Thai Government by NOAA under a memorandum of agreement in December of 2006. After two and a half years in the ocean, the DART system exhausted its power last summer and left the region without a fully operational deep-water tsunami monitoring system. The STB was deployed in the eastern Bay of Bengal, approximately 280 nautical miles west of the Nicobar Islands, in 3,468m of water. This region is one of the most seismically active regions in the world and is near the origin of the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami that claimed nearly a quarter of a million lives. The Thai STB deployment comes on the heels of five STBs deployed for the Government of Australia over the last 18 months. STB systems will also be deployed for the People’s Republic of China in April in the northern South China Sea. The deployment of the Thai STB re-establishes a fully operational, global reporting deep-water tsunami assessment capability for Thailand. This STB system has become one of the cornerstone sensors for tsunami warning centers in the Indo-Pacific.