
The Navy’s FY 2020 budget request is pushing to start a new 10-ship “Ghost Fleet” of large unmanned surface vehicles (LUSVs) to add more sensors and weapons to the manned fleet. In FY ’20 the Navy intends to spend $400 million for two LUSVs under the research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) funding account. Over the course of the future years defense plan (FYDP) the Navy intends to buy two more LUSVs per year through FY ’24, at a total…