Woods Hole to outfit underwater drone for minehunting, ASW

摘要

Officials of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, R.I., awarded a $35.5 million contract to the Woods Hole Ocean-ographic Institution in Woods Hole, Mass., to develop, assess, upgrade, and modernize underwater drones and other unmanned undersea technologies the Navy uses for undersea surveillance and undersea warfare. The contract calls for work on the Navy's PLUS and Acorns programs, REMUS UUV, REMUS launch and recovery systems, and related advanced ocean technologies.