The production award pairs a fused bridge picture for watchstanders on five Arleigh Burke destroyers with the plumbing to collect shipboard data, retrain AI models ashore and update ships at sea.
Interceptor startup Singularity says a solid rocket motor co-developed with the Navy's China Lake weapons center completed a static fire about three months after the two signed a research agreement. No contract has been announced.
Two awards in three days give the Navy two companies developing a motor for the medium-range variant of its planned Standard Missile successor, a four-per-cell interceptor.
An outcome-paid Navy contract moves a drone and software company into the Virginia-class supply chain, but the Maryland yard does not open until 2030.
A Navy buying model that made vendors fund their own sea trials has produced its first production orders, and the service is already loosening the rules to bring in more builders.
The Navy is buying the autonomy startup as a second-source shipbuilder, and Saronic has to deliver crewed landing craft from its new Texas yard before its autonomous fleet arrives.
The AUKUS trial moved undersea autonomy into weapons carriage, but it proved the interfaces rather than an operational strike capability.
Hanwha Defense USA and Magnet Defense start building the 38-meter H38 unmanned vessel in October and test it in January. The Navy's first MUSV trial round is running without them.
Rolls-Royce won US Navy certification for two mtu engine families in autonomous vessels, clearing the unglamorous gate that decides how long a crewless warship can actually stay out.