SPAWAR AUVs

摘要

Hydroid, USA, has announced that its contract to provide Littoral Battlespace Sensing (LBS) AUVs to the US Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) has moved directly from the Engineering Development Model (EDM) phase to full rate production (FRP). The decision to make the rare move from the EDM phase directly to FRP was made by the US Navy's Milestone Decision Authority (MDA), the Navy's Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (PEO C4I), after more than a year of extensive testing and evaluation determined that Hydroid's LBS AUV systems were ready for deployment. In response to the MDA's approval, SPAWAR has ordered the immediate production of three LBS AUVs (REMUS 600s) and one shipset, including a launch and recovery system (LARS), a LARS flat rack, a mission van, a maintenance van and vehicle support equipment.