The first Romulus is expected to be completed in about 12 months and once production is up and running, the company expects to build up to six vessels concurrently and deliver four or five per year.
Company after company has introduced unmanned platforms, but as one analyst said, the Navy "just has not given the indication that they are buying these at scale."
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The new UUV is derived from the same technology at the heart of the UUV being developed for the US Navy's Lionfish program.
The two companies aim to expand the use of both their unmanned vessels by linking them together — technologically and, at times, physically.
The features HII included in the Remus 620 are squarely focused on the qualities the US Navy has emphasized for its future UUV fleet.
During Breaking Defense's recent visit to a UUV manufacturing plant, HII officials stressed their modular design, in line with the Navy's unmanned vision of plug-and-play technologies.
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The basic idea of Odyssey is to prepare any ship or platform to use a variety of autonomous software capabilities.
Huntington Ingalls Industries, like others in the defense base, is making a play for the unmanned systems market. Its moves these past two years have been aggressive.