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NAVSEA Officials Seek Accelerated Acquisition, Modular Approach To Unmanned Systems

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, January 11th, 2018

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NAVSEA Officials Seek Accelerated Acquisition, Modular Approach To Unmanned Systems

Capt. Jon Rucker, Navy program manager for unmanned maritime systems. Photo: Matthew Beinart.

Navy officials are looking to move forward with a modular systems approach to speed up acquisition of incremental capabilities and focus delivery efforts for its unmanned maritime systems. Building on several unmanned undersea vehicle programs started last year, Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) leadership intends to fund multiple training operations through 2018 in the hopes of opening up the opportunity for industry to test payloads in 2019.“We want the latest and greatest, but it’s got to work before we put…

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