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Navy Pushing 10 Unmanned Ships Over Five Years

Wednesday, March 13th, 2019

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Navy Pushing 10 Unmanned Ships Over Five Years

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 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…

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