The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has issued a broad agency announcement to define concepts for the Sea-Based Terminal Future Interceptor. The Interceptor would be used in future for sea-based terminal defenses against hypersonic glide […]
Researchers in the Biotechnology Research and Development Lab at the U.S. Navy’s Naval Surface Warfare Center have been issued a 20-year patent for a 3D-printable material made of a marine-biodegradable base polymer. Using a combination […]
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a $13.9M US contract to Applied Physical Sciences – a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics – for the Sea Train project. The Sea Train […]
The U.S. Navy has awarded a fixed-price-incentive-firm-target contract to L3Harris Technologies Unmanned Maritime Systems division to design and manufacture a single prototype Medium Unmanned Surface Vehicle (MUSV). Contract options allow for the purchase of up […]
U.S. Navy officials at the Naval Research Laboratory recently announced plans to award a contract to L3Harris Technologies Ocean Server to improve and upgrade two Iver3 autonomous underwater vehicles (UUVs). The value of the upcoming […]
Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane (NSWC Crane) Division and Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic (NIWC Atlantic) have partnered to search for new technologies in support of the Naval Integration in Contested Environments (NICE) Advanced Naval […]
Navy SEALs are testing a new dry combat submersible (DCS) that allows them to be fully enclosed inside a mini-submarine while in transit from a submarine to shore, thus reducing their exposure to cold water […]
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has issued a solicitation for the second phase of the Ocean of Things Project. The Project, begun in 2017, seeks to develop persistent, wide-area sensor surveillance across […]
San Diego-based Ocean Aero has been awarded a multi-year, $4 million dollar contract by the US Department of Homeland Security to deliver a variety of the company’s autonomous, underwater, and surface vehicles (AUSVs) models for […]
The Underwater Multi-Sensor (UMS) test pool at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) recently underwent renovations and upgrades. UMS is a 9-million gallon (~35,000,000 liter) freshwater test pool that provides an […]
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