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  • 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

  • SeeByte Gets Navy UUV Engineering, Technical Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SeeByte Gets Navy UUV Engineering, Technical Support Contract

    Battelle‘s SeeByte subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $22.6 million contract to provide technical, engineering and training support for U.S. Navy‘s MK18 unmanned underwater vehicles. SeeByte said Monday it will update the SeeTrack common operator interface for Navy explosive ordnance disposal software modules, procure Neptune autonomy software licenses for MK18 UUVs and develop automatic target recognition modules. The SeeTrack open architecture software […] More

  • Hydroid Demos New Unmanned Underwater Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hydroid Demos New Unmanned Underwater Vehicle

    Kongsberg Gruppen‘s Hydroid subsidiary has demonstrated the capacity of an unmanned underwater vehicle to collect signals intelligence and launch an unmanned aerial vehicle during an in-water exercise. REMUS 600 UUV conducted a threat mission scenario at the U.S. Navy‘s Advanced Naval Technology Exercise that took place in Newport, Rhode Island last month, Hydroid said Tuesday. The platform was equipped with […] 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

  • Leidos Tests Unmanned Maritime Vessel at Navy Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Tests Unmanned Maritime Vessel at Navy Exercise

    Leidos has showcased an unmanned test vessel designed to autonomously navigate and gather data at sea during the U.S. Navy‘s Advanced Naval Technology Exercise 2017. The company said Wednesday its R/V Pathfinder autonomous ship operated in the waters near Panama City, Florida, where it surveyed the sea floor and sent ocean and meteorological data to the Naval Undersea Warfare Center […] More

  • Battelle Realigns SeeByte in Govt Market Push for Unmanned Underwater Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle Realigns SeeByte in Govt Market Push for Unmanned Underwater Tech

    Battelle has changed the structure of its SeeByte subsidiary in an effort to eliminate any issues related with foreign control or ownership and facilitate business collaboration with U.S. government clients on unmanned underwater technologies. Battelle said Thursday it will directly manage SeeByte’s U.S. business, headquartered in San Diego, as a result of the restructuring effort. SeeByte Inc. […] More

  • Aquabotix UUV Placed on GSA Contract Vehicle for Govt Procurement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aquabotix UUV Placed on GSA Contract Vehicle for Govt Procurement

    An Aquabotix-built unmanned underwater vehicle is now available for purchase on General Services Administration contract vehicles, Naval Today reported Tuesday. Aquabotix’s Endura UUV platform has been approved for federal, state and local government procurement via the GSA Schedule and GSA Advantage contract vehicles. “Inclusion on the GSA Schedule and in the GSA Advantage catalog now allows for […] More

  • Military & Aerospace: Curtiss-Wright Launches Data Storage Tech for ISR Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Military & Aerospace: Curtiss-Wright Launches Data Storage Tech for ISR Aircraft

    Curtiss-Wright has unveiled a small form factor SWaP-optimized data storage technology for unmanned aerial and underwater vehicles and ISR aircraft, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Friday. Mil & Aero staff write the Data Transport System 1-Slot network attached storage delivers up to two terabytes of storage and supports encryption to help protect data at rest. The report added DTS1 […] 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

  • Electric Boat-Made Sub 'North Dakota' Deploys Underwater Drones in 1st Naval Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Electric Boat-Made Sub ‘North Dakota’ Deploys Underwater Drones in 1st Naval Mission

    The U.S. Navy‘s USS North Dakota submarine worked alongside three other Virginia-class submarines to deploy and retrieve unmanned underwater vehicles during a six-week tour in the Mediterranean Sea. The service said Monday that North Dakota — built by General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat subsidiary — joined the USS Virginia, USS Hawaii and USS New Hampshire in its first-ever mission. “It was a rare […] More