Oceaneering Wins Contract to Build Freedom™ AUV and Remote Operations Center for U.S. Navy

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Houston, Texas – Oceaneering International, Inc. announces today that its Subsea Robotics and Aerospace and Defense Technologies segments were awarded a multi-million dollar contract by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) of the U.S. Department of Defense to build a Freedom™ Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) and establish an Onshore Remote Operations Center (OROC) for the U.S. Navy. The vehicle will be manufactured at Oceaneering’s Morgan City, Louisiana facility. This award allows us to deliver commercial technology driven by energy industry needs to the U.S. Department of Defense to address subsea security needs.” Martin McDonald, Oceaneering’s Senior Vice President for Subsea Robotics stated: “Our global footprint and worldwide supply chain allows Oceaneering to maintain a 99% uptime for the world’s largest fleet of work class subsea robotic vehicles. Oceaneering is able to leverage our existing facilities and supply chain to manufacture vehicles at scale, as we have done and continue to do for the energy industry.” Oceaneering has conducted remote operations of commercial subsea robotic systems from OROCs since 2015 and has performed over 120,000 hours of remote operations to date. This recent contract award will bring this commercial capability to the U.S. Navy.

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