DIU Starts $100m Uncrewed Boat-Launched Drone Competition

DIU wants an uncrewed boat and drone combo to find and hunt low-cost maritime threats Credit: DIU

DIU wants an uncrewed boat and drone combo to find and hunt low-cost maritime threats.

Credit: DIU
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has launched a new $100 million competition to use uncrewed surface vessels (USV) to launch uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) to hunt low-cost threats such as other USVs. The Suitable Warfighting Adaptive Payloads (SWAP-USV) competition is intended to identify...
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