Northrop Grumman develops UUV payload delivery system for sensors and weapons

摘要

Undersea warfare experts at Northrop Grumman Corp. are moving forward with a project to build and test an advanced undersea payload delivery system for future extra-large unmanned underwater vehicles (XLUUVs) under terms of a $3.4 million order. Officials of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., are asking the Northrop Grumman Mission Systems segment in Annapolis, Md., to support the second phase of the Hunter program to develop a payload-delivery system for a large unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV). The Hunter program involves only the payload delivery system and not the extra-large UUV itself.