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Navy Plans Industry Days To Refine Unmanned Vessel Architecture

Thursday, February 21st, 2019

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Navy Plans Industry Days To Refine Unmanned Vessel Architecture

A rendering of the Knifefish medium unmanned underwater vehicle (MUUV) which will be deployed from the littoral combat ship to sweep mines. (Illustration: General Dynamics)

The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) issued a request for information (RFI) on Wednesday, proposing a set of industry days to get feedback for the in-development Unmanned Maritime Autonomy Architecture (UMAA). The UMAA aims to “enable autonomy commonality and reduce acquisition costs across both surface and undersea unmanned vehicles,” the RFI said. It also noted the Navy is seeking feedback on services and interfaces proposed as well as ideas and concepts that will expand on what is currently proposed. Specifically,…

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