News Articles with Category: LDUUV
October 23, 2014 – via US Navy
Greenert said that by the end of the decade, the Navy ought to be deploying an autonomous large-diameter underwater-unmanned vehicle on missions.
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September 6, 2014 – via NUWC Keyport
Sailors assigned to Submarine Development Squadron 5 prepare Large Training Vehicle 38, an unmanned undersea vehicle at Naval Undersea Warfare Center Keyport, Wash. The drone is capable of line-of-sight and over-the-horizon communications in support of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
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August 28, 2014 – via US Navy
LTV 38 was originally developed for the Sea Stalker program. The vehicle is 27-feet in length and 38-inches in diameter, and was originally assembled in 2008 by Penn State University’s UUV land-based test facility in State College, Penn.
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August 15, 2014 – via National Defense
Key areas in the development of the LDUUV include greater autonomy and the creation of efficient fuel cells that will facilitate long-term submersion. Better reliability is another goal of the program. When you are out on an autonomous vehicle, even minor things can be a complete showstopper.
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June 6, 2014 – via Inside Defense
The committee is “concerned” the Navy may not be able to develop the necessary capabilities to achieve its goal of deploying the “large-displacement” UUV squadron on independent missions by 2020.
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May 14, 2014 – via United Technologies Corp
Major features include a qualified fuel cell stack design, simple balance of plant and dense reactant storage.
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March 14, 2014 – via USA Today
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is stepping up its research on several programs, including doubling its planned spending on the Hydra program, an underwater “truck” that would carry unmanned submarines and aerial drones.
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September 10, 2013 – via NAVSEA PMS-406
Industry Information Day will be held on October 16, 2013 and is planned to be an all-day event focused on the LDUUV System projected technical requirements, current assessment of technology maturity, and expected program details. This Industry Information Day will be an information exchange with industry led by the Program Manager for Unmanned Maritime Systems (PMS 406) within the Program Executive Office for Littoral Combat Ship (PEO LCS) organization.
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September 1, 2013 – via National Defense
The Navy hopes to field UUVs that can deploy or retrieve payloads, gather, transmit, or act on information and engage targets in the water or on land.
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August 27, 2013 – via DARPA STO
The Hydra large UUV is to use modular payloads inside a standardized enclosure to deploy a mix of UAVs and UUVs, depending on the military situation. Hydra will integrate existing and emerging technologies in new ways to create an alternate means of delivering a variety of payloads close to where they’re needed.
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May 21, 2013 – via Metron
Metron is being awarded a contract to include in-lab integration and testing of autonomy and mission planning software with bench test hardware selected for deployment on the LDUUV.
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April 9, 2013 – via Defense News
Water-going robots bring unforeseen challenges — technological ones, to be sure, but also legal, regulatory and ethical tangles. Drones that fly or crawl on the ground are controlled by radio waves, but it is difficult — often impossible — to communicate with underwater vehicles. The answer, it seems, is autonomy — robots that are not remotely piloted, but that operate on their own.
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January 31, 2013 – via U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory
The Office of Naval Research has selected several SOFC projects that have the potential to exceed the limits of current and future high-energy-density batteries.
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January 18, 2013 – via Inside Defense
ONR is developing LDUUV prototypes right now and is using the office’s funding to make tweaks. In 18 months when prototypes five and six are built, Klunder said they should be able to enter the fleet.
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October 22, 2012 – via Wired
Never mind looming defense cuts or residual technical challenges. The Navy’s chief futurist is pushing up the anticipated date for when sailors can expect to use laser weapons on the decks of their ships, and raising expectations for robotic submarines.
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October 15, 2012 – via Aviation Week
In the AUV world, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) is pressing forward with work on the Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (LDUUV).
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September 25, 2012 – via The Patriot Ledger
The Proteus can carry unmanned cargo or up to 7 people at distances up to 500 miles underwater.
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September 18, 2012 – via Wired
Manufacturers Bluefin Robotics, a Battelle subsidiary, and the Columbia Group brought it to the Gulf of Mexico off of the Florida coast to put it through sea trials
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September 14, 2012 – via Inside Defense
Results due in February
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August 7, 2012 – via Military and Aerospace Electronics
The company will develop a cryogenic fuel cell-powered undersea vehicle energy system. Sierra Lobo specializes in advanced cryogenic reactant storage system technology to power UUVs.
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August 5, 2012 – via Military and Aerospace Electronics
Hamilton Sundstrand researchers will concentrate on demonstrating energy-dense proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC)-based air-independent propulsion for a future generation of large, long-endurance surveillance UUVs.
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August 3, 2012 – via Military and Aerospace Electronics
ONR has awarded General Atomics a potential $20 million contract to develop energy section technology for the Navy’s Large Displacement Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Innovative Naval Prototype (LDUUV INP) program.
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August 3, 2012 – via Inside the Navy
An analysis of alternatives is ongoing for the LDUUV, as the Navy seeks to field a UUV that can handle bigger payloads while trying to solve the problem of how to power the vehicle in the most efficient way.
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July 26, 2012 – via Global Newswire
The SOFC fuel cell stack is based on the technology developed by Versa Power Systems, an SOFC developer that is partially owned by FuelCell Energy. Other team partners include the Energy Systems Division of NASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Yardney Technical Products, Inc., Naval Underwater Warfare Center (NUWC), and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).
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July 20, 2012 – via Fed
Large Displacement Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Innovative Naval Prototype(LDUUV INP Energy Section Technology Base IDIQ Contract
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July 16, 2012 – via Fierce Government
The Navy says it will release software developed for the autonomous control of underwater vehicles to industry as government open source.
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July 11, 2012 – via FedBizOps
To help inform the potential US DoD Contractor MOAA user base, the Navy plans to hold a MOAA Industry Day at the Kossiakoff Center, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD, 20723 on 14 Sept 2012.
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July 11, 2012 – via FedBizOps
To help inform the potential US DoD Contractor MOAA user base, the Navy plans to hold a MOAA Industry Day at the Kossiakoff Center, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD, 20723 on 14 Sept 2012.
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June 4, 2012 – via Military and Aerospace Electronics
There’s suddenly a lot of exciting work going on in unmanned underwater vehicles, or UUVs for short. One of the most influential research organizations pushing UUV technology forward is the Office of Naval Research, or ONR, in Arlington, Va.
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May 30, 2012 – via Military and Aerospace Electronics
The U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Arlington, Va., are asking engineers at Lynntech Inc. in College Station, Texas, to develop a prototype propulsion and power system for a future long-endurance UUV under terms of an $18 million contract awarded earlier this month.
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May 18, 2012 – via Inside the Navy
There are three major challenges when it comes to the LDUUV. The first is energy density so that the vehicle can achieve that 30- or 60-day endurance. Autonomy is another hurdle — the vehicle must operate and know what it may face in the ocean. The third challenge is reliability because there will not be a sailor to repair the vehicle, Deitz stated.
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April 26, 2012 – via FedBizOps
CRA will extend current work to minimize the energy needed in order to maximize the endurance and support the ONR energy plan.
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April 23, 2012 – via FedBizOps
The prospective contractor shall develop an autonomy testing system that allows autonomy development on land based simulators to in water testing on UUV (Unmanned Underwater Vehicle) in a realistic environment.
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April 12, 2012 – via Aviation Week
The U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research plans to take robot submarines to a new level. Current Navy unmanned underwater systems (UUS) are small vehicles controlled by an operator nearby, for missions lasting a few hours. The Large Displacement Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (LDUUV) will be large and highly autonomous, carrying out missions at long distances for months.
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March 19, 2012 – via Wired
It’s been the Navy’s dream for years: undersea drones that can swim entire oceans. But it’s been thwarted by science’s inability to build propulsion and fuel systems for a journey of that length.
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February 13, 2012 – via Unmanned Systems
Rear Adm. Matthew Klunder, chief of Naval Research at the Office of Naval Research in Arlington, Va., put autonomy on the short list for historic naval achievements.
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February 10, 2012 – via InsideDefense.com
The Navy intends to release a request for proposals for a large-diameter unmanned underwater vehicle in fiscal year 2014, a Navy official said.
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February 1, 2012 – via Military of China
U.S. want to build large-scale unmanned submarine
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January 25, 2012 – via UVOnline
Boeing is preparing to conduct sonar payload testing in March using its Echo Ranger UUV test bed
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January 25, 2012 – via Princeton Security Technologies
Princeton Security Technologies Completes Radiation Sensor Testing on LDUUV With Boeing
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January 9, 2012 – via Defense News
In this case, the grail is an unmanned submarine smart enough to sense and avoid obstructions, powerful enough to stay out on months-long missions without detection, and cool enough to keep computers from overheating. Those are among the challenges facing the companies and universities vying to provide ideas to the U.S. Navy about how to power and autonomously navigate a Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (LDUUV), a development project led by the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR).
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June 3, 2011 – via FedBizOps
VCT awarded $248K contract under ONR BAA11-001
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