
Anduril Industries on Monday said it has received an $18.6 million contract from the Navy to build five of its Dive autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) for a prototyping effort and the company also announced it will open a production facility in Rhode Island in 2025 to scale up manufacturing of its Dive-LD family of unmanned underwater vessels (UUVs). The prototype production contract follows initial awards the Navy and the Defense Departments Innovation Unit (DIU) made to Anduril, Kongsberg Discovery, and…