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Navy/USMC

ONR Making Advances In Autonomous Mine Hunting UUVs

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Friday, May 16th, 2008

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By Geoff Fein The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is making investments to develop autonomous underwater mine hunting systems and to improve the ability of those systems to communicate through water, as well as remain on station longer, according to an ONR official. "The leading edge issue is autonomy... the artificial intelligence that's onboard [an unmanned underwater vehicle]," Tom Swean, organic mine countermeasures program manager at ONR, told reporters during a briefing earlier this week. In an autonomous underwater vehicle…

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