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DARPA Investigating Counter-UUV Defenses

Wednesday, September 18th, 2024

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DARPA Investigating Counter-UUV Defenses

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency published a notice on Sept. 11 looking for “innovative proposals” for its Sync program to counter unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs). DARPA said this Sync program aims to investigate “orthogonal approaches to counter UUVs that do not rely on the complex detection and localization of the UUV to defeat the adversary.” It specifically wants to find methods to defeat UUVs entering I.S. harbors and ports. The notice said DARPA will start investigating approaches via modeling…

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