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Moton Lays Out Development Pillars Of USVs

Wednesday, April 14th, 2021

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Moton Lays Out Development Pillars Of USVs

The formerly DARPA Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) program full-scale Sea Hunter demonstration vehicle, used for modeling as a Medium Displacement Unmanned Surface Vehicle (MDUSV). (Photo: DARPA)

The head of the Navy unmanned systems office on Tuesday explained how the system engineering for unmanned surface vessels (USVs) is focused in six pillars and in sync with the Unmanned Campaign Plan framework. Most of the Navy’s USV work is concentrated in PMS-406, unmanned maritime systems, and it “is approaching all of this in a rigorous way... we’ve been, along with our prototypes that are out testing now, we’ve been maturing our execution plans. They have a development plan…

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