U.S. Navy Selects 7 Contenders for the MUSV Program
Summary
The U.S. Navy has selected seven contenders for its Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel program and will move them into at-sea testing. The selected companies include Sea Machines, Leidos, Saronic Technologies, Galliano Marine Services, PacMar Technologies, Birdon, and Huntington Ingalls Industries. Each company is set to receive an additional $15 million to support testing, with trials scheduled to start in June and finish by October. The program has a multibillion-dollar budget behind it and could lead to follow-on production of up to 81 unmanned vessels by FY 2031. The Navy is pushing industry to prove scalable autonomous designs and take on more development and production risk.
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Government, Public sector
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Web and Content Management
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Marine Software
Autonomous Systems Software
Computer Vision Software
Linked Companies
Sea Machines Robotics, Inc.
$1M to $5M