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USNI News Two More ‘Ghost Fleet’ Unmanned Test Ships to Join Fleet Next Year July 13, 2021 8:50 PM USVs Ranger and Nomad unmanned vessels underway in the Pacific Ocean near the Channel Islands on July 3, 2021. US Navy Photo The next pair of ships slated for the Navy and the Pentagon’s test program for autonomous ships are under construction on the Gulf Coast and set to join the service next year, defense officials told reporters on Tuesday. The Navy’s two new Ghost Fleet Overlord surfac...

The newly arrived Nomad joins other advanced A.I. ships in experimental Navy program

A growing fleet of autonomous, artificial intelligence-piloted Navy surface ships has been stationed in San Diego — part of an ambitious effort to find out how the emerging technology might be used to expand the service’s reach.

The Office of the Secretary of Defense Strategic Capabilities Office conducted a transit with a Ghost Fleet Overlord Unmanned Surface Vessel.

USNI News Ghost Fleet Ship ‘Nomad’ Transited Panama Canal, Headed to California May 20, 2021 12:03 PM Ghost Fleet vessel Nomad transits the Miraflores locks in the PAnama Canal on May 18, 2021. USNI News Graphic An experimental unmanned surface vehicle has transited the Panama Canal on the way to its new home in California, USNI News has learned. Nomad, a former offshore patrol vessel retrofitted with systems to allow the ship to operate autonomously, passed through the Panama Canal this we...

General David H. Berger’s Commandant’s Planning Guidance (CPG) says “The Marine Corps will be trained and equipped as a naval expeditionary force-in-readiness and prepared to operate inside actively contested maritime spaces in support of fleet operations.” The CPG also highlights force design and the need to divest the Corps of legacy equipment and programs that do not meet future requirements. And it repositions the Marine Corps’ Fleet Marine Forces under the operational control of...

In January 2019, a video made the rounds on news and social media outlets showing a Coast Guard boarding team from the USCGC Munro (WMSL-755) interdicting a suspected drug-smuggling vessel. The highlight of this thrilling video is when the boarding officer leaps from the Munro’s small boat on to the hull of the self-propelled semisubmersible and slams the hatch in a flurry of blows, exhorting the smugglers in Spanish to “Stop your boat!” The vessel heaves to, the hatch opens, and a pair...

WASHINGTON -- A Ghost Fleet Overlord unmanned surface vessel, part of a partnership between the Defense Department's Strategic Capabilities Office and the Navy, recently traveled a distance of more than 4,700 nautical miles, almost entirely autonomously.,

Posted: about 1 year ago The most recent display of that maturity involved a USV traveling from the Gulf Coast to the coast of California, moving autonomously approximately 97% of the time. While the USV did have a crew on board, remote mission command and control for the trip was done from a remote location by sailors with Surface Development Squadron One. One of the few times the USV was guided by its onboard crew was when it traversed the Panama Canal.  Optionally manned vessels provide ...

Unclear on unmanned: The US Navy’s plans for robot ships are on the rocks David Larter keyboard_arrow_down One of the two prototypes purchased by the Office of the Secretary of Defenses Strategic Capabilities Office for its Ghost Fleet Overlord program, aimed at fielding an autonomous surface ship capable of launching missiles. (U.S. Defense Department) This is the first of a three-part series on the Navy’s struggles to develop unmanned ships and systems. WASHINGTON – After a bruising, ...