On March 27, 2024, Caterpillar Marine announced the successful completion of key milestones with Serco Inc., a provider of professional, technology, engineering, and management services, to advance the use of autonomous vessels for naval applications.

An industry team led by Serco is continuing to progress detail design of a highly autonomous experimental uncrewed surface craft ahead of beginning prototype construction later this year.

We inquired to DARPA for updates on two of its programs, the Sea Train project and the No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS). Both are Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) programs...

L3Harris Technologies has been selected to design an autonomous surface ship concept for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to demonstrate the reliability and feasibility of an unmanned ship performing lengthy missions.