Boeing moves forward on Navy long-endurance unmanned underwater vehicle project for special warfare missions

Published on November 10, 2022

Undersea warfare experts at the Boeing Co. will continue supporting extra-large unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), which will be expected to undertake long-endurance missions to deploy sensors or other UUVs.

Officials of the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington has announced an $11.6 million order to the Boeing Defense, Space & Security segment in Huntington Beach, Calif., for engineering support services in support of the Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (XLUUV) program.

 

https://www.militaryaerospace.com/unmanned/article/14285455/unmanned-underwater-longendurance

Other news

Four questions with France’s military cyber mission lead

November 10, 2022
France foresees its future military force as heavily relying on systems of systems, whose networks are interconnected across the battlefield. From the Army’s Scorpion modernization program for new ground vehicles and communications systems to the Air and Space Force’s sixth-generation fighter in development with Germany, the increasingly connected capabilities will require evermore cybersecurity.T

SOSA-aligned embedded computing processor for artificial intelligence (AI) introduced by Curtiss-Wright

November 10, 2022
The Curtiss-Wright Corp. Defense Solutions division in Ashburn, Va., is introducing the VPX3-4936 3U OpenVPX GPGPU processor module for deep learning, neural networks, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning.The processor features the combination of the NVIDIA Ampere graphics processing unit (GPU) and a configurable Gen4 PCI Express switch. The NVIDIA Ampere architecture boosts performa