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Undersea Warfare
March 2021
Columbia Submarine Program Challenges Supply Chains
By Jon HarperThe effort to build the Navy’s next-generation ballistic missile submarine has moved into the full construction phase, but the sea service and its industry partners face supply chain challenges as they work to keep the project on track. -
Navy News
September 2020
JUST IN: New Navy Lab to Accelerate Autonomy, Robotics Programs
Over the past few years, the Navy has been building out a new family of unmanned surface and underwater vehicles in a variety of sizes through various prototyping efforts. It is now standing up an integration lab to enable the systems with increased autonomy, officials said Sept. 8. -
Navy News
October 2019
NEWS FROM EWC: Navy Improving Mine Warfare Capabilities to Counter Russia, China
By Connie LeeThe Navy must improve its mine warfare capabilities as it faces an era of great power competition, said one top Navy mine official Oct. 22. -
Undersea Warfare
September 2019
Royal Navy Employing AI for Mine Hunting
The United Kingdom’s Royal Navy is utilizing artificial intelligence to enable autonomous mine-hunting vessels. -
Maritime Security
June 2019
DARPA to Use Shrimp, Plankton to Detect Undersea Threats
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s biological technology office will begin prototyping sensing capabilities using undersea organisms such as plankton and shrimp to detect threats. -
Undersea Warfare
May 2019
JUST IN: Allied Naval Leaders Warn of New Age of Mine Warfare
Sweden — Potential adversaries have taken note of how effective improvised explosive devices were in Iraq and Afghanistan and may try the same tactics at sea, naval leaders said May 13. “Mines are a type of asymmetric warfare. They are cheap. They are easy to place. They’re a nuisance and they are out there,” Frank DiGiovanni, deputy director of the expeditionary warfare division of the U.S. Navy, said at the Undersea Defense Technology symposium in Stockholm, Sweden. And they are not just a military problem as they can threaten commercial sea traffic and impede free trade, he added. -
Navy News
November 2018
Columbia-Class Program Must Navigate Sea of Risks
By Jon HarperThe Navy’s program to build a new ballistic missile submarine that would remain on patrol until the 2080s faces a number of hurdles, raising concerns among service officials and analysts that the first boat might not be ready on time. -
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
November 2018
Navy Developing Underwater Robotic Arm
The Office of Naval Research awarded re2 Robotics a $2.5 million contract to continue to develop an underwater robotic arm. -
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
March 2018
Navy to Send More Unmanned Systems to Sea
By Jon HarperThe Navy is moving ahead with unmanned surface and undersea vehicle development, and pursuing enabling technologies that will make the platforms operationally effective. -
Navy News
January 2018
Navy Faces Gap in Counter-Mine Systems
The Navy is on the lookout for new, advanced counter-mine technology as a number of its legacy systems age, service officials have indicated.
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