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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 week, according to ship spotters tracking data from Marine Traffic.com. A Navy official also confirme...
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 a stepping stone to allow the navy and its sailors to more easily become familiar with the concept o...