Navy and DIU select three “best in the breed” vendors to advance LDUUV development

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...

https://www.marinelog.com/technology/navy-and-diu-select-three-best-in-the-breed-vendors-to-advance-lduuv-development/

33 injured after research ship topples while in drydock in Edinburgh, Scotland

Authorities in Scotland have confirmed that 33 people suffered varying degrees of injury after a foreign-owned research vessel toppled over while in drydock in the capita ..

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