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Navy Officials Confirm XLUUV To Enact GAO Recommendations

Navy Officials Confirm XLUUV To Enact GAO Recommendations
Dorothy Engelhardt, director of unmanned systems for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for ships, christens the Orca XLUUV Test Asset System during a ceremony on April 28, 2022, in Huntington Beach, Calif. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

Navy officials this week confirmed the service will enact the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) recommendations as it moves forward with the Orca Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (XLUUV) while noting it is a challenging vehicle. The XLUUV program is procuring five 54-inch vehicles based on the Boeing [BA] Echo Voyager vehicle to support mine countermeasures, anti-submarine warfare and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions.  “Orca is an over 80-foot long UUV with a modular payload bay and with mining as…

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