Navy adds 49 more to $982M unmanned surface vehicle program

A Seahawk medium displacement unmanned surface vessel at sail on April 21, 2021.

A Seahawk medium displacement unmanned surface vessel at sail on April 21, 2021. Photo by Chief Petty Officer Shannon Renfroe

Ross Wilkers By Ross Wilkers,
Senior Staff Reporter

By Ross Wilkers

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This on-ramp round of awards focuses on the vehicles' underlying technologies such as payloads, mission support systems and the needed autonomy to control them.

The Navy has added 49 companies to a potential 10-year, $982.1 million contract first awarded in 2020 for work on unmanned surface vehicles.

This on-ramp process for the Unmanned Surface Vehicle Family of Systems contract grows the number of firms involved to 88, all of which are competing for delivery orders to work on all aspects of USVs.

Navy officials set up the on-ramp contract to focus on the vehicle's underlying technologies that include payloads, non-payload sensors, mission support systems, autonomy and vehicle control systems, ashore and host platform elements, and logistics and sustainment.

For the initial round, the Navy sought a diverse group of platform manufacturers and technology integrators to aid in the branch's push for more vessels without sailors.

On-ramp awardees announced June 14 are as follows:

  • Anduril Industries
  • Applied Research Associates
  • Asymmetric Technologies
  • AT&T
  • Atlas Technologies
  • Autonodyne
  • Beast Code
  • Bigelow Family Holdings
  • Bollinger Shipyards Lockport
  • CACI International
  • CR Tactical
  • Cydecor
  • DELTA Resources
  • Fairbanks Morse
  • General Atomics Aeronautical Systems
  • Gird Systems
  • Herren Associates
  • Honeywell International
  • IERUS Technologies
  • Integer Technologies
  • KIHOMAC
  • Leonardo DRS
  • MAK Technologies
  • Marine Ventures International
  • Marinette Marine
  • Metron
  • Microsoft
  • Murtech
  • NewSat North America
  • Noblis MSD
  • Novetta (now part of Accenture Federal Services)
  • Ocean Specialists
  • PACMAR Technologies
  • Persistent Systems LLC
  • Physical Sciences Inc.
  • Prescient Edge
  • Programs Management Analytics & Technologies
  • Reliability & Performance Technologies
  • Saab Inc.
  • Scientific Systems Co.
  • Secmation
  • SES Government Solutions
  • SIMIS
  • Sparton DeLeon Springs (now part of Elbit Systems of America)
  • Systems and Proposal Engineering
  • Systems Technology & Research
  • TDI Technologies
  • Teledyne FLIR Surveillance
  • Triton Systems 

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