The new solicitation is another instance where the US Navy seems to be opting for technology that is commercially ready, rather than exquisite and unique.
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The four USVs featured in the exercise collectively transited 46,000 nautical miles over several months.
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Understanding the environment is the baseline for successful naval operations. To develop more and better undersea charts, the Navy is combining hydrography with autonomy for the first time.
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Understanding the environment is the baseline for successful naval operations. To develop more and better undersea charts, the Navy is combining hydrography with autonomy for the first time.
By Breaking Defense The Navy’s goal in creating an “autonomy baseline” is to provide itself the flexibility to plug and play with different industry capabilities onboard the same unmanned vehicles.
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Sailors operating the USVs at RIMPAC were more concerned about what the drones could do, rather than how they were controlled.
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Shipbuilding executives say they can take the strain of maintenance for a fleet of unmanned vessels, but industry and the Navy have historically struggled with the warships they are currently managing.
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“We are going to do a live-fire offensive exercise,” Rear Adm. Jim Aiken, Carrier Strike Group 3 commander told reporters Tuesday. “We are going to use the unmanned surface, unmanned air, and manned air and surface to provide a targeting solution.”
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The Navy is standing up its first operational unmanned ship command, a big moment in the Pentagon’s move toward autonomy
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Rep. Joe Courtney’s comments on on the heels of other lawmakers and military officials pushing for the Navy to get a larger slice of the 2022 defense budget
By Paul McLeary “What I was looking at when I first came into the job was a number of unmanned efforts that were on the way and not being necessarily coordinated,” CNO Adm. Mike Gilday says.
By Paul McLeary Smaller unmanned vessels will act as expendable scouts and decoys, larger ones — over 50 meters — will carry masses of missiles, while manned ships will carry both the largest systems and the human beings essential for rapid adaptation in combat.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
William Roper is “buying time” for the rest of the Pentagon, he told us in a rare interview. His Strategic Capabilities Office finds near-term but game-changing upgrades for existing weapons systems, preserving American advantage over rapidly advancing adversaries while DARPA and Defense Department labs develop a new generation of breakthroughs. Yesterday, we wrote about Roper’s…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
This afternoon, Deputy Defense Secretary and robotics booster Bob Work will christen the largest unmanned surface vessel in history. At 130 feet long and not quite 140 tons displacement, DARPA’s Sea Hunter dwarfs previous robotic boats, giving it the ruggedness and fuel capacity, about 70 days’ worth, to cross oceans on its own power without a manned mothership. But…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
