Navy's Acquisition Methods Slow Down Deployment of Undersea Robots

摘要

The Navy recently experienced sticker shock when estimates for a robotic mine-hunting vehicle came in at more than $12 mil-rnlion apiece, or 51 percent higher than expected.rnThe troubled "remote mine-hunting system" once again has drawn attention to the Navy's difficulties in developing and deploying robotic systems from ships. Several programs during the past two decades were launched and then sputtered as a result of either unaffordable prices or simply inadequate technologies that weren't suited to the demands of the fleet.