Norway’s Kongsberg, via its Kongsberg Discovery technology division, has confirmed that the first production example of its long-range Hugin Endurance autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) has completed factory acceptance testing. Sea trials for the first production unit began in September 2023. In...
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...
Arctic Fjord, the first new trawler-processor for Alaskan pollock to be built in the U.S. in over three decades is now undergoing sea trials in the Northern Pacific. Ordered from Houma, La., shipbuilder Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors by Seattle headquartered Arctic Storm Management Group, LLC , the 100 meter long Jones Act vessel was designed by Kongsberg Maritime.
Set to commence full-time operations for 2024’s pollock A season in the Bering Sea, on sea trials it is testing an integrated...
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