The Marine Corps has a new unmanned, semisubmersible vessel to transport supplies and weapons. The general said the design is "just a narco-boat," an idea stolen from drug smugglers. The vessel could ...

The Autonomous Low-Profile Vessel (ALPV), a new unmanned supply vessel under development, was deployed at the U.S. military’s Naha Port Facility.

An autonomous low-profile vessel at the Del Mar Boat Basin at Camp Pendleton, California, February 2024. (Kevin Ray J. Salvador/Marine Corps) The Army is developing requirements to distribute supplies ...

U.S. technology and shipbuilding startup Blue Water Autonomy has entered a production agreement with Louisiana-based Conrad Shipyard to build its first class of autonomous surface vessels, marking a ...

The U.S. Marine Corps is deploying unmanned surface vessels to Japan to streamline logistics across the Indo-Pacific region. Built by U.S. defense company Leidos, the USVs are engineered to supply ...

RESTON, Va., March 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Two Leidos-designed uncrewed and autonomous-capable low-profile vessels (LPVs) recently participated in the Project Convergence Capstone 4 military ...

Advances in autonomous vessels – from R&D to regulatory policies to actual work – are moving rapidly. AVs include a range of vessel types and missions, from freight to law enforcement to research to ...

Anduril wants to build dozens of autonomous ships a year. So it’s teaming up with global shipbuilding titan HD Hyundai Heavy Industries to manufacture the type of autonomous ships the U.S. Navy wants ...