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By Nick Wakeman

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DARPA unmanned ship work moves forward

DARPA is making progress on a program it calls No Manning Required
Ship, making a second award to Serco Inc. to continue developing a
design for the ship.

While the Federal Procurement Data System pegs the value of the
contract at $7.7 million for Phase 1A and the recently awarded Phase
1B portion of the contract, this is precisely the kind of design work
Serco wanted to pursue when it acquired Alion's naval architecture
business in 2019.

NOMARS concept vessel

A rendering of the NOMARS unmanned surface vessel concept; courtesy
Serco.

Other companies also are in the mix include Autonomous Surface
Vehicles LLC, a division of L3Harris; Gibbs & Cox, a naval
architecture firm acquired by Leidos; Barnstorm Research Corp.; and
TDI Technologies.

It's unclear which of the companies has made it to the second phase
besides Serco.

Known as NOMARS X-Ship, the DARPA program is exploring novel surface
vessel designs using what Serco called a "clean sheet refresh." The
NOMARS vessel will have no onboard sailors and will need to operate
for long periods of time.

The vessel will eventually replace larger and more expensive ships,
Serco said.

One goal is to lower the Navy's cost per mission hour with a reduced
platform size and the ability to extend the reach of larger, manned
vessels.

"Able to observe and contest large swaths of the mission space, USVs
could enable virtually embarked warfare commanders to be everywhere
at once," Serco wrote. "A fleet comprising these smaller, yet capable
autonomous platforms are anticipated to yield an increase in deployed
capabilities with a reduction in mission cost, operational
constraints, and risk to human life."

To pursue this work, Serco is drawing on the Alion acquisition as
well as Alion's 2005 acquisition of John J. McMullen and Associates.

Posted by Nick Wakeman on Sep 24, 2021 at 12:02 PM


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