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DoD Innovation Unit Wants To Enhance Maritime Domain Awareness With Unmanned Systems

DoD Innovation Unit Wants To Enhance Maritime Domain Awareness With Unmanned Systems
Two Saildrone Explorer unmanned surface vessels and the guided-missile destroyer USS Delbert D. Black (DDG-119) operate in the Persian Gulf on Jan. 8, 2022 as part of the International Maritime Security Construct’s Sentinel Shield exercise. (Photo: U.S. Navy, by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jeremy R. Boan)

The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) this week released a solicitation seeking proposals of “proven commercial solutions” that can be immediately demonstrated to give unmanned systems with more capabilities at the edge with a goal to enhance maritime domain awareness. The solicitation outlines current challenges in exploiting the potential of unmanned vehicles (UxVs) to better meeting DoD’s operational needs for maritime domain awareness, including limited bandwidth on the systems that prevents them from efficiently communicating with manned and other unmanned platforms.…

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