DARPA and BAE Systems to develop SUUVs

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded BAE Systems a $4.6 million contract for an Small Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (SUUV) that would help U.S. Navy submarines detect adversary subs while minimizing their own risk of being detected. “Advances in maritime technology are critical to the Department of Defense and an area where the U.S. military can continue to strengthen its advantage,” Geoff Edelson, director of Maritime Systems and Technology at BAE Systems, said in a company news release.

Here’s How Darpa’s Robot Ship Will Hunt Silent Subs

 

Submariners like to say there are two kinds of ships: subs and targets. The Pentagon’s futurists want to turn that aphorism on its head, and develop a new kind of surface ship that can turn a sub into a target. Naturally, the sub-hunter won’t have a human on board. Here’s how it’s going to work. (Read more)