The Navy this year is laying the foundational efforts to maintain its envisioned fleet of unmanned surface and undersea vessels by combining a multiple award contract for hardware components and a new prototype for integrating autonomy software, a Navy officer leading the efforts told Inside Defense. "The timing of all this coming together is quite good, actually," Capt. Pete Small, program manager for unmanned maritime systems, said in a Sept. 18 interview. "We've always intended [our unmanned vehicles] to be modular and upgradeable, so we continue to lay more bricks in the foundation, if you will, of the infrastructure we need in support of that vision of modular and upgradable UUVs and USVs," he continued.
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