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Four companies have received fixed-price delivery orders worth $1.5M combined to integrate and test sonar technologies for the U.S. Navy's unmanned surface vehicle program.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is almost ready to solicit for a 100-ton unmanned surface vessel designed for year-long unmanned operation, Inside Defense reported Tuesday.
Northrop Grumman has demonstrated the unmanned use of its mine-hunting sonar with a new deploy and retrieval payload.
Spatial Integrated Systems will continue efforts to develop a heterogeneous swarm of unmanned surface vehices in partnership with the Office of Naval Research. The company said Monday it aims to demonstrate small and very small USVs in the eight-unit swarm through the program.
Northrop Grumman has produced and shipped the first two units of a new airborne technology for the U.S. Navy to detect and counter mines.
Textron and the U.S. Navy have entered an agreement to integrate anti-surface weapons into the service branch’s unmanned surface vehicle, USNI News reported Tuesday. The team would develop and install surface warfare payloads onto the Common Unmanned Surface Vehicle as part of the cooperative research and development agreement. Payloads will include missiles, designators, sensors and remote weapon stations, the report […] More
Elbit Systems has showcased a company-built unmanned surface vessel during a maritime exercise jointly conducted by British and Israeli navies in Haifa Bay, Israel. The Seagull USV scanned and mapped a path for U.K.’s HMS Ocean helicopter carrier as part of a mine countermeasure mission that took place at the joint naval exercise, Elbit Systems said Thursday. Seagull also worked […] More
The U.S. Navy has facilitated technology demonstrations of various unmanned systems alongside technology developers from industry and academia during the two-day Advanced Naval Technology Exercise 2017. The event dubbed “Battlespace Preparation in a Contested Environment” kicked off on Aug. 15 at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport in Rhode Island and at the Naval Surface Warfare […] More
Northrop Grumman and Atlas Elektronik‘s U.K. subsidiary have jointly demonstrated an unmanned mine hunting system during the Belgian Defense Technology and Industry Day trials in Zeebrugge, Belgium. Northrop said Monday its AQS-24B mine hunting sensor was integrated with Atlas Elektronik UK‘s ARCIMS unmanned surface vessel during the tests. Alan Lytle, vice president of undersea systems at Northrop’s mission systems business […] More
The Department of the Navy has launched a market research effort to determine if two or more companies can help the government manufacture, assemble and test a mine neutralizer system for unmanned surface vehicles. A request for information notice posted Wednesday on the FedBizOpps website says the Navy plans to add a Barracuda Mine Neutralizer mission module to the LCS […] More
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