Undersea Warfighting Development Center Leadership Visits NUWC Division Newport
ship range and detection—and advanced development and handling systems.The tour concluded with a briefing on the latest updates from the Yellow Moray Autonomous Undersea Vehicle (AUV) Program, a submarine system that enables the launch and recovery of specially configured REMUS 600-based AUVs from Virginia-class torpedo tubes
HII Delivers Initial Lionfish UUVs to U.S. Navy
, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), anti-submarine warfare, and electronic warfare.The REMUS UUV family delivers critical advantages across modern naval operations and the autonomous systems have been proven to operate independently or in conjunction with crewed platforms — such as Virginia-class nuclear submarines — to extend mission range, reduce detection risk and limit personnel exposure.The REMUS open-architecture design allows rapid payload integration, enabling mission-specific configurations and future tech insertions — key factors in maintaining operational relevance
HII Sells Over 700 REMUS Uncrewed Underwater Vehicles
family delivers critical advantages across modern naval operations, including intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), mine countermeasures, anti-submarine warfare, and electronic warfare. These autonomous systems can operate independently or be teamed with crewed platforms — such as Virginia-class nuclear submarines — expanding operational reach while reducing detection risk and personnel exposure.More than 700 REMUS UUVs have been sold in over 30 countries, including 14 NATO members.Over 90% of the vehicles delivered in the past 23 years remain operational, demonstrating the
Rocket Lab to Convert Barge for Rocket Landings at Sea
will help to ease that bottleneck, and our new landing platform will open space access even further by enabling even more mission opportunities that require maximum Neutron performance,” said Peter Beck, Rocket Lab Founder and CEO.Rocket Lab currently expects Neutron to make its debut launch from Virginia in the second half of 2025
PODCAST - Underwater Robotics: Giving Marine Scientists Superpowers
instrumentation, particularly autonomous underwater vehicles for seafloor mapping and benthic habitat characterization. He received a bachelor’s degree in geology from Duke University in 1998, a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Sydney in 1999, and a Ph.D. in marine sciences from the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences in 2004. His research interests include coastal and estuarine morphodynamics, sediment transport, hydrodynamics, autonomous underwater, aerial and surface vehicles, seafloor mapping, and geoacoustics.Tune in and subscribe here
Watch: Soft Robot Swims Like Manta Ray
;We observed the swimming motion of manta rays and were able to mimic that behavior in order to control whether the robot swims toward the surface, swims downward, or maintains its position in the water column,” says Jiacheng Guo, co-author of the paper and a Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia. “When manta rays swim, they produce two jets of water that move them forward. Mantas alter their trajectory by altering their swimming motion. We adopted a similar technique for controlling the vertical movement of this swimming robot. We’re still working on techniques that will give
Podcast: Fascinated by Shipwrecks; USS Monitor Digitally Reimagined
built the most accurate virtual model ever of Monitor, and I'm not just talking just the shell of it. Every single nut and bolt is there.” Tane CasserleyThe USS Monitor was commissioned during the Civil War for the Union Navy in answer to the Confederate Navy’s new ironclad ship CSS Virginia (formerly the USS Merrimack), touted as being capable of breaking the Union blockade at Hampton Roads, Virginia. Swedish-American inventor, John Ericsson came up with a unique low, freeboard design that included a first-of-its-kind rotating gun turret.Monitor was launched on January 30, 1862, and
JDR Secures Cabling Work at Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Project
JDR Cable Systems (JDR), the global subsea cable and umbilical supplier and service provider, has secured a significant contract by DEME Offshore to support Dominion Energy's Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project.JDR's comprehensive scope of work covers 176 wind turbines and three offshore substations.It includes pull-in, termination, testing, and commissioning of all the 66kV subsea inter-array cables. The work will start in 2025 and continue into 2026, across three campaigns.During installation, as part of the pull-in scope, JDR teams will winch and pull the cables from the seabed to
General Dynamics Mission Systems to Develop Clandestine Mine Delivery System
and associated risk reduction activities.This contract includes options for prototype production and support that, if exercised, would bring the total value of the contract to $58.1 million. Design work on this contract will be performed in Quincy and Taunton, Massachusetts; Fairfax and Manassas, Virginia; Scottsdale, Arizona; Middletown, Rhode Island and Greensboro, North Carolina and is expected to be completed by September 2026.“The critical operational need for advanced mine warfare assets like MEDUSA has increased dramatically,” said Dr. Laura Hooks, vice president and general manager
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