U.S. Defense Department Awards Long-Range Unmanned Vessel Contracts

The contracts were awarded to Applied Physical Sciences Corp., Gibbs & Cox Maritime Solutions, and InMar Technologies. Specifically, the companies will be working on a program called Sea Train.

DARPA explains  the Sea Train program on its website:

The contract awards follow news last week awarded contracts totaling nearly $42 million to six companies to study adding large unmanned vessels to the U.S. Navy fleet. The companies included Huntington Ingalls, Lockheed Martin, Bollinger Shipyards Lockport, Marinette Marine Corp., Gibbs & Cox, and Austal USA.

Operating as an agency of the United States Department of Defense, DARPA’s goal is to research and develop new and emerging technologies that could be of use by the military.

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