Undersea warfare is essential to succeeding in the Pacific and other similarly contested areas. Offering much-needed autonomous underwater sensing and payload delivery in long-range, dispersed, deep, and contested environments is crucial. Crewed submarines are typically high-value, high-resource capital platforms essential for combat missions.
The U.S. military needs a fleet comprising large displacement uncrewed underwater vehicles (abbreviated as LDUUVs) with diverse capabilities. One of the...