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Navy To Host Workshop To Explore UUV System Capabilities

Friday, December 3rd, 2021

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Navy To Host Workshop To Explore UUV System Capabilities

The Echo Voyager unmanned undersea vehicle, the basis for the design of the Navy's Orca Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (XLUUV). (Photo: Boeing)

The Navy is planning to host a workshop in February with industry and academia to explore and better understand the state of unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) system capabilities and identify areas for additional research. According to a request for information (RFI) released on Nov. 30, the Unmanned Maritime Systems program office (PMS 406) recently developed a list of desired autonomy capabilities for a large, long-endurance UUV “for which there is a need for further research and development of novel solutions.”…

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