Navy Talks Details on LCS Mine Countermeasures Mission Package
After several years of delays, the Navy’s mine countermeasures mission package for the Littoral Combat Ship has finally reached its…
Navy to Use Sea Hunter in Fleet Exercises as Unmanned Systems Experimentation Continues
As the Navy experiments with its unmanned surface vehicle prototypes, the service plans to employ the Sea Hunter Medium USV…
Navy Pushing to Maintain 2023 USV Program of Record Timeline
Several Navy program officials and resource sponsors today outlined how they’ll spend the next couple years giving Congress enough confidence…
OPNAV N95: Expeditionary Sea Bases Ideal Ships to Operate Mine Countermeasure Mission Packages
It’s growing more likely that components of the mine countermeasures mission package designed for the Littoral Combat Ship small combatant…
The State of LCS: Navy Moving to Add Firepower, Capability to Both Classes
This is the second of a two-part series on the current state of the Littoral Combat Ship program. This post…
Navy Issues Draft Request for Proposal for Large Unmanned Surface Vehicle
The Navy has put a call out to industry to send in ideas for its planned fleet of corvette-sized unmanned…
Navy Planning Aggressive Unmanned Ship Prototyping, Acquisition Effort
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – The Navy has tightly coupled early prototyping efforts and future acquisition efforts for medium and large…
VIDEO: Navy Brings Mine Countermeasures Triad Together for Experiment Aboard British Ship
NAVAL STATION NORFOLK, ABOARD RFA MOUNTS BAY – The Navy’s mine countermeasures community brought all three legs of its triad…
LCS Mission Package Office Focused On Test, Fielding; IOC Dates Continue to Slip
ARLINGTON, Va. – The Littoral Combat Ship mission package program office considers itself to be out of the technology development…
Navy to Field ‘Optionally Unmanned’ Vessels to Supplement Future Surface Combatant
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Navy’s Future Surface Combatant will likely include both an unmanned and an optionally unmanned surface vessel…