Jane Edwards
The U.S. Navy seeks information on potential industry sources that can help develop a prototype of the Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicle system designed to support the service branch’s underwater intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday that it wants information on structures and materials requirements, propulsion, sensor payloads, internal open architecture platforms and autonomy systems for the LDUUV program.
The service branch also seeks information on commercial off-the-shelf items, launch and recovery systems, platform integration, energy components, engineering, maintainability and signature considerations, as well as vendor supplier base for specialty components.
The Navy plans to host the modular architecture-based LDUUV system on submarine and surface platforms, according to the notice.
Responses to the request for information are due June 20.
