Navy asks industry for small-, medium-, and large-size power systems for unmanned surface vessels (USVs)

摘要

U.S. Navy surface warfare experts are reaching out to industry to find companies able to develop enabling technologies for advanced power generation system for efficient, long-endurance unmanned surface vessels (USVs). Officials of the Office of Naval Research in Arlington, Va., have issued a solicitation (N00014-21-S-SN04) for the Robust Unmanned Platform Power Systems project. The power generation system should be modular and scalable for small- medium-, and large-size USVs, and support propulsion, ship service, sensors, and mission payloads, and be reliable enough for the naval environment. Navy surface warship designers are interested in developing low-cost high-endurance reconfigurable ships that can accommodate payloads to help the Navy shift to a more distributed fleet architecture for optionally or lightly manned ships.