Jane Edwards
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has received a Raytheon-built sonar system for integration with the Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel program.
Raytheon said Wednesday it handed the Modular Scalable Sonar System to DARPA as part of a subcontract it won from Leidos.
MS3 is an open architecture-based platform designed to perform torpedo warning, search-and-tracking and small-object avoidance functions for the ACTUV program.
Raytheon will integrate the sonar system with a Leidos-made prototype trimaran that will be used as the unmanned vehicle for the program.
The ACTUV initiative seeks to develop an unmanned vessel that works to detect and monitor diesel-electric submarines through the use of new sensor systems.
