General Dynamics [GD] Mission Systems has acquired Bluefin Robotics, a Quincy, Mass.-based developer of autonomous undersea robots used for mine countermeasures, anti-submarine warfare and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.Carlo Zaffanella, vice president of GD’s maritime and strategic systems business, characterized the purchase of Bluefin as a “small, but strategic acquisition…and a good fit” based on the companies’ prior history of doing business together, but stopped short of predicting a big growth in the market for undersea robots.Unmanned underwater vehicle technologies (UUVs)…
