Nov 4, 2024 · One USV capability revealed for the first time at the exercise – a system that demonstrates the enduring NATO focus on surveillance requirements, but also the evolving capacity to tackle other tasks – was the Portuguese Navy’s new …

Jan 6, 2020 · The US Fleet Forces Command last month issued a notice asking the service’s surface force to develop a concept of operations (CONOPS) for the large and medium unmanned surface vessels currently in development.

The Navy needs to develop a concept of operations (CONOPS) for incorporating unmanned surface and underwater vessels (USV/UUV) into existing Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) processes at the operational levels of war and command.

Sep 15, 2020 · The head of the Navy’s development squadron focused on unmanned surface vehicle (USVs) recently explained how they are working to test and develop concepts of operation (CONOPS) for USVs while still receiving prototypes.

Aug 2, 2022 · With four USV prototypes under the helm of the recently created Unmanned Surface Vessel Division One, the Navy is pairing the platforms with destroyers at RIMPAC to experiment with and better understand how the four USVs …

Dec 19, 2024 · In a test as part of DARPA’s NOMARS program, the USV Mariner (right) deploys a refueling probe towards the USV Ranger (left) in the first test of fueling at sea (FAS) without any human interaction required on the part of the receiving vessel.

Dec 26, 2024 · “The team demonstrated all parts of the system CONOPs (concept of operations) while underway, including passing the lead-line to the refueling side, passing and connecting the refueling probe to the USV side and pumping water,” the Pentagon agency explained.

Nov 19, 2024 · This article explores the strategic importance of uncrewed systems, their potential roles in critical missions like intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and mine-countermeasures, and the hurdles the Navy faces in developing a clear Concept of Operations (CONOPS) to gain Congressional support.

Small and medium expeditionary USVs such as the MANTAS need a “truck” to deliver them to an area near the battlespace. This is where it is proposed to leverage the Navy’s planned investment in the large, unmanned surface vehicles (LUSVs). This is how an October 2020 Congressional Research Service report describes this vessel:

Jan 2, 2025 · As revealed by DARPA, the team demonstrated all parts of the system CONOPs while underway, including passing the lead line to the refueling side, passing and connecting the refueling probe to the USV side, and pumping water.