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A multination naval exercise in the Pacific Ocean this summer, called RIMPAC, will deploy the four largest drone ships currently operational in the US Navy.

The Royal Navy has acquired a modified commercial crewboat to use as a testbed for future technologies, including autonomous systems. The service orde...

Four prototype unmanned surface vessels are participating in the Rim of the Pacific 2022 (RIMPAC) exercise, delivering warfighting capabilities and extending the reach of the manned US fleet with fewer risks to the warfighter.

Uncrewed vessels are playing a prominent role at the U.S. Navy's flagship Rim of the Pacific exercise this year. This year, more than 30 experimen...

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, HAWAII – With its four experimental unmanned surface vehicles in Hawaii, the Navy is testing news manned-unmanned teaming concepts at the biennial Rim of the Pacific exercise this month. The service’s two Ghost Fleet Overlord test ships – Nomad and Ranger – are here operating off the coast of Hawaii, along […]

The U.S. Navys San Diego-based unit for high-tech vessel testing, Surface Development Squadron One,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — There’s enough space and weight margin aboard the Zumwalt-class destroyers to install two tubes for hypersonic missiles without removing the ship’s 155mm gun mounts, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday told USNI News last month. By 2025, the first 16,000-ton Zumwalt-class destroyer will have at least two sets of missile tubes […]

This post is part of a series looking back at the top naval stories from 2021. This year began with a level of uncertainty for Navy acquisition, as an administration change left naval observers wondering how the new Biden administration would approach the future fleet. While the Trump administration at the end of 2020 unveiled a […]

USNI News Navy Takes Delivery of Sea Hawk Unmanned Vessel Seahawk USV. Leidos Image A second medium-sized unmanned surface vessel prototype has delivered to the Navy, builder Leidos announced this week. Sea Hawk, sister ship to the Navy’s Sea Hunter, was built on the Gulf Coast and is now bound to join the Navy’s Surface Development Squadron One in California, the company said in a Wednesday press release. In 2017, the Office of Naval research awarded Leidos a $35.5 million contract to buil...

Composite hull of Seahawk, pictured during construction. (Photo: Leidos) The design of the Seahawk medium USV reflects lessons learned from the predecessor Sea Hunter vessel. Leidos announced on 7 April that it has delivered its Seahawk autonomous Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel (MUSV) to the USN. It joins the USN Surface Development Squadron One (SURFDEVRON) in San Diego, California. Seahawk was built under a $35.5 million contract awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in December 2017...