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  • General Dynamics Unveils New Center of Excellence for Unmanned Undersea Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Unveils New Center of Excellence for Unmanned Undersea Vehicles

    General Dynamics‘ mission systems business has launched a new center of excellence in Taunton, Massachusetts for the production and testing of unmanned undersea vehicles. The UUV Manufacturing and Assembly CoE of General Dynamics Mission Systems is a repurposed part of the existing facility and is dedicated to supporting UUV manufacturing, integration, assembly and testing, the […] More

  • General Dynamics Unveils Bluefin-9 Autonomous UUV Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Unveils Bluefin-9 Autonomous UUV Platform

    General Dynamics’ mission systems business has launched a new unmanned underwater vehicle to help defense, academic and commercial users gather subsurface data. Bluefin-9 is designed to be deployed from a pier or a rigid-hulled inflatable boat and features a removable module built to store sonar data, images and video that users can access shortly after they recover the vehicle, General Dynamics […] More

  • General Dynamics Demos C4 Capacities With Airborne, Underwater Assets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Demos C4 Capacities With Airborne, Underwater Assets

    General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat and mission systems businesses have showcased multiple mission command, control and communication capacities that connected a simulated submarine combat control center with unmanned underwater and aerial vehicles. General Dynamics said Tuesday it linked Bluefin Robotics-built UUVs and AeroVironment‘s Blackwing UAV to the AN/BYG-1 submarine control facility during the 2017 Advanced Naval Technology Exercise that took […] More

  • General Dynamics, Navy Put Surface Mine Countermeasure UUV Through At-Sea Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics, Navy Put Surface Mine Countermeasure UUV Through At-Sea Test

    The U.S. Navy and General Dynamics‘ mission systems unit have evaluated a company-built autonomous surface mine countermeasure unmanned undersea vehicle during a series of tests held off the coast of Boston. General Dynamics said Monday the tests aimed to determine if the Knifefish UUV could detect and classify mines that pose potential threats to naval vessels at different depths of  water. […] More

  • General Dynamics Accepts Orders for Bluefin SandShark Underwater Drone - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Accepts Orders for Bluefin SandShark Underwater Drone

    General Dynamics’ mission systems business has said customers in the defense, science and commercial sectors can place an order for an autonomous underwater vehicle through the company’s website. Bluefin SandShark is part of General Dynamics’ Bluefin Robotics suite of underwater drones and is designed to dive down to up to 656 feet and navigate to […] More

  • General Dynamics Showcases Bluefin Autonomous Underwater Vehicle; Matt Graziano Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Showcases Bluefin Autonomous Underwater Vehicle; Matt Graziano Comments

    General Dynamics has demonstrated a hovering-autonomous underwater vehicle the company’s Bluefin Robotics subsidiary developed to detect threats to a ship’s hull and structure. General Dynamics said Thursday it showcased the H-AUV platform that incorporates acoustic sonar and high-resolution imaging technology during the OCEANS 2016 exposition in Monterey, California. The vehicle is designed to determine a hull’s condition, locate structural issues and identify […] More

  • Research and Markets: Commercial, Scientific, Defense Sectors to Drive Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Demand - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Commercial, Scientific, Defense Sectors to Drive Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Demand

    A fresh Research and Markets report has projected the global autonomous underwater vehicles market’s growth to rise at 13.42 percent annually over the next five years, reaching $343.4 million by 2020. Research and Markets stated that the report expects the commercial, scientific and defense sectors to drive demand for AUVs, with commercial applications projected to […] More

  • RE2 to Develop Robotic 'Arms' for UUV Explosive Ordnance Disposal Ops - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    RE2 to Develop Robotic ‘Arms’ for UUV Explosive Ordnance Disposal Ops

    RE2 Robotics will build an Underwater Dexterous Manipulation System for Explosive Ordnance Disposal Applications for the Office of Naval Research under a $2.7 million contract. The company said Tuesday DMEA works as “manipulator arms” that provide unmanned underwater vehicles the functionality to dispose of waterborne improvised explosive devices. Jorgen Pedersen, president and CEO of RE2, noted that the […] More

  • Ross Lindman: HII Eyes Navy Undersea Ops With New Proteus Submersible - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ross Lindman: HII Eyes Navy Undersea Ops With New Proteus Submersible

    Huntington Ingalls Industries unveiled its new submersible named Proteus, which was developed in partnership with Battelle and Bluefin Robotics, at the recent Sea-Air-Space Exposition in Maryland, the Daily Press reported April 13. Hugh Lessig writes that HII highlighted Proteus’s “flexible” design as the company seeks to potentially deploy the submersible to support the U.S. Navy‘s undersea naval operations and warfare. […] More

  • UAV Makers Hone Focus on Small Technology for Civilian Usage - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UAV Makers Hone Focus on Small Technology for Civilian Usage

    Unmanned aerial system builders have been developing smaller drones for non-military fields such as emergency response, agriculture and energy sector inspection, Military Aerospace & Electronics reported Monday. John Keller reports in a video blog from an Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International event last week that there is a growing trend toward smaller UAV technology […] More