Hydroid Littoral Sensing AUV Enters Full Production

Hydroid’s REMUS 600-S AUV. Photo courtesy Hydroid.

By Danielle Lucey



Hydroid Inc., of Pocasset, Mass., announced that its Littoral Battlespace Sensing autonomous underwater vehicles are moving into full-rate production for its support of the U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command.



The decision to move the Kongsberg Maritime subsidiary’s product from the engineering development model phase into production was executed by the Milestone Decision Authority of the Navy’s Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence after a year of testing and evaluation.



“We’re very pleased by the MDA’s decision to grant us accelerated approval for FRP,” says Christopher von Alt, President and cofounder of Hydroid. “We’re grateful to our strong team of partners for their hard work to make this possible, including the program’s sponsor, the Oceanographer of the Navy.”



SPAWAR’s AUVs will come equipped with advanced technologies so they can collect oceanographic and meteorological data, according to a Hydroid press release. The data will be used by the Naval Oceanographic Office, which collects and analyzes ocean and littoral data provided to the Department of Defense.