Kongsberg Completes Sonatech Acquisition
, autonomous systems and advanced signal processing. Its autonomous underwater solutions include the HUGIN family of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV). It enables covert seabed intelligence gathering and can carry customized payloads for different mission profiles.Modern unmanned underwater and surface vehicles equipped with advanced sonar technologies are supporting missions including mine countermeasures, underwater operations, harbor defense and the protection of critical undersea infrastructure.“The HUGIN family of AUV’s provides a wide range of capabilities. From shallow to deep water
One Hull, Many Missions: How Modular USVs Are Changing Autonomous Marine Operations
increasingly diverse, from environmental monitoring and hydrographic surveying to defense exercises and subsea positioning, maintaining dedicated vessels for every application presents difficulties both financially and operationally.Instead, many organizations are prioritizing modular uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) capable of supporting multiple mission profiles through rapid payload reconfiguration. Rather than purchasing a new platform for every sensor or application, a single vehicle can adapt to changing operational requirements while minimizing logistics, training, and maintenance costs.The
MTCOM: Building the Connected Port of Tomorrow
for next-generation port environments.At its core, MTCOM envisions the port as a cyber-physical ecosystem, where maritime assets, infrastructure and digital platforms continuously exchange information through a dedicated communication backbone. By integrating advanced monitoring systems, autonomous surface vehicles and a private 5G network, it delivers real-time situational awareness, improves the coordination of maritime traffic and infrastructure, enhances safety, and enables continuous environmental monitoring to support regulatory compliance and more sustainable port operations.USV_EL CAT: A Mobile
Fincantieri Strikes Four Deals in $687M Underwater Expansion
on Euronext Growth Milan, provides marine survey and geoscience services as well as offshore construction support services.WSense specializes in underwater communications and the Internet of Underwater Things, while Graal Tech and Defcomm specialize in autonomous underwater vehicles and autonomous surface vehicles, respectively.The transactions follow Fincantieri’s acquisition and integration of WASS in 2025 and Remazel in 2024. The expanded underwater platform will comprise eight companies and about 1,500 professionals across Italy, the UK, the Netherlands, Norway and the UAE.Fincantieri said the
US Supplies Autonomous Drones to Boost Philippine Maritime Surveillance
The United States has transferred four Ocean Aero Triton autonomous underwater and surface vehicles (AUSVs) to the Armed Forces of the Philippines to strengthen the country's maritime domain awareness and its ability to monitor and respond to maritime challenges.The delivery, valued at approximately $13 million, was completed on June 22 during a turnover ceremony at the Philippine Navy's Naval Operating Base Subic, attended by U.S. and Philippine military officials.The Triton systems are capable of collecting data above and below the ocean's surface through a resilient mesh network and can
Autonomous Vehicles Solve (and Create) Problems for Ports
of AI is evidenced by the many technology partnerships that are forming between platform, software and sensor creators. Late last year, Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) announced a partnership with Mythos AI to integrate AI-driven autonomy software across OPT’s fleet of WAM-V autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs). These vehicles leverage real-time edge processing, multi-sensor fusion and adaptive learning for enhanced situational awareness, obstacle avoidance and multi-vehicle coordination.Dr. Fritz Stahr, chief technology officer at Open Ocean Robotics, says the integration of AI to analyze data
KONGSBERG, DRASS Partner for Underwater Solutions
, and manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T),” says Espen Henriksen, Senior Vice President Uncrewed Platforms at KONGSBERG.“These jointly developed solutions will create an integration bridge between DRASS’s compact submarines and manned underwater systems, and KONGSBERG’s unmanned surface vehicles and conventional UUVs," CEO Sergio Cappelletti at DRASS stated. "By leveraging our respective expertise—particularly through the joint development of KONGSBERG and DRASS unmanned vehicles —we can advance interoperable underwater platforms and accelerate progress in this
MARTAC, Mystic Powerboats to Expand ASV Production Capacity
Maritime Tactical Systems, Inc. (MARTAC), a provider of autonomous unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), and Mystic Power boats, a leader in high-performance composite vessel construction, announced a co-production partnership to increase MARTAC’s domestic production capacity to meet growing requirements from U.S. and allied customers.MARTAC’s partnership with Mystic is the first of several pending domestic co-production partnerships the company is finalizing that will support a expansion of its co-production framework. The distributed production model strengthens MARTAC’s ability to
Blue Institute Reveals New BX6 Blue Excelerator Cohort
Freight of Provincetown, Massachusetts, which is advancing zero-emission freight for regional maritime logistics.Retssop of Nova Scotia, Canada which is developing modular oil spill response technology.Sedna Robotics of Boston, Massachusetts, which is building offshore robotic systems and autonomous surface vehicles for persistent monitoring.Springtide Innovations / Springtide Seaweed of Gouldsboro, Maine, which is developing integrated aquaculture technology and seaweed product systems.Maritime SystemsFocus: Infrastructure, autonomous operations, and hardware/software integration.DUV of Denmark, which
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