stripes - Alabama ship builder gets Navy contract to develop autonomous prototype
Alabama ship builder gets Navy contract to develop autonomous prototype by The "312 Room" on an Expeditionary Fast Transport built by Austal USA has accommodations for 312 passengers. (Lawrence Specker, al.com/TNS) (Tribune News Service) — Austal USA announced Wednesday that it has received a $44 million contract to develop one of its Expeditionary Fast Transports as an autonomous prototype. The U.S. Navy contract applies to EPF-13, the future USNS Apalachicola, a ship that is already under construction. It follows a years-long effort by Austal executives to pitch the transport ships ...
Source: stripes.com