Only one year after being awarded a 24-month frame contract for Large Diameter Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (LDUUV) by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), KONGSBERG completed acceptance testing and delivery of the first HUGIN Superior Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) for this customer.
A valuable asset for the U.S. Navy
This final testing was completed at the beginning of the year in Norway. The vehicle will now go on to provide real-world operational relevance and enhance...
A new workboat has been delivered to a Norwegian coastal waterway authority as construction continues on a pilot station ship in China and a research vessel for a French museum. Orders have meanwhile been placed for two German electric workboats and a sea-going rocket launch base in the United States. Chinese-built pilot station vessel floated […]
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The Spaceport Company (TSC), a US-based space launch company, has been awarded a contract by the US Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to develop a prototype for a sea-going mobile space launch complex. TSC said the prototype will be developed to demonstrate delivery to a...
The Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the Navy’s Program Office Advanced Undersea Systems (PMS 394) have selected three vendors to prototype and develop Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) platforms.
The DIU says that undersea warfare is critical to success in the Pacific and other contested environments, providing needed autonomous underwater sensing and payload delivery in dispersed, long-range, deep and contested environments is key. In particular, the U.S. military...