Unmanned surface vehicle

Bullfrog's going to be on top of Saronics.

I would say on top of, in general, USVs.

Yeah.

I can't talk about any partnerships or anything.

So here, MUSV is deploying in the Pacific.

I don't know why one deploys for the first time because they've been deploying MUSVs for a while, particularly in the Pacific.

But here they paired one up with the Teddy Roosevelt strike group.

And this particular MBUSV got its first operational deployment.

They're using, you know, a combination of, Air, surface, subsurface drones especially.

It's a heavy, heavy focus on rapid development of UAVs and USVs.

They're looking at the utilization of VTOL.

Defense drones that are more range-focused.

If you've got a platform that works, work with us.

We'll get it on the medium USV marketplace.

It's a good thing for the shipbuilders, it's a good thing for Havoc, and it's a good thing for the country, right, to have optionality out there, to have different autonomous ships out there.

I'm seeing something in this conversation.

I'm a cutting-edge technology, right? And my software has been proven to work.

You know, we were in the medium-use competition with them, right? But if you talk about efficiency, right, because I don't have to worry about running a shipyard.

You know, my margins are a lot better, right? Like I'm able to compete in the medium USV.

I'm able to provide my customers with a capable product at a more reasonable price, right? But it goes back to, right, it's not an either or.

Stefan Bosch reports.

Iran said on Friday that it had struck an enemy unmanned surface vehicle, a USV.

Apologies for that technical mistake.

That was the report by Nathan Morley on Iran's supreme leader who has ordered that any threat from enemies must be met with an immediate and effective response.

Iran said on Friday that it had struck an enemy unmanned surface vehicle, a USV, east of the Strait of Hormuz, and that several so-called violating oil tankers caught fire in separate incidents in the waterway.

The Iranian Navy said in a statement that its forces destroyed the USV as it was moving and operating east of the strait.

It added that two oil tankers, which had turned off their tracking systems and entered the forbidden zone, were damaged after striking naval mines.

They then caught fire.

So we're, we're doing some stuff in the ground side.

Um, we are partnered with and working with companies to provide parts to the USVs and UUVs.

Nothing planned so far to like kind of produce full systems.

Um, sometimes like USVs, UUVs, um, some of the limb facts for us are the limiting factors are those things are just massive.

And so to really produce large portions of those at the edge kind of falls out of our wheelhouse.

But can we provide parts and different things to those? 100%.

So yeah, you'll see more out of the ground side for sure.

You'll see way more out of the air side.

So you could do that at any scale.

And then special T&E authority, because I think the way that the DOG, the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group, was working, it was a bunch of SOCOM guys, but they had these task forces for UUVs, UAVs, and USVs, where they were actually doing kind of the experimentation, testing, and force deployment stuff.

So it was already, this DERPM was different than the other DERPMs.

Because there is like that forced generation aspect of it.

dot lpf without the all the other enablers are in place and there's still going to be people dude yeah exactly you think about it like all these unmanned things there's no dedicated operators right we don't know we don't have operators assigned to any of these forces we don't have a system of really wide joint sustainment concept for how they're going to be maintained in theater so there's so much work that has to be done i think the auto work i'm guys will be A lot more focused on that than it will be like on trying to micromanage a USV program or the CCA or whatever, all the new programs that come out.

Yeah, I wonder on the CCA, because the way I think it was in the statute was it was just group one through three.

And if you looked at like the DERPA MU-XS memo, it actually left out MUSVs and I think the group fives as well.

The stuff that the services more or less want to force generate for the CCAs that they have planned, I don't think MUSV was more dropped on the Navy.

There's a lot of...

There's a lot of benefits that USVs have that you don't necessarily get out of aerial drones or subsea.

And again, they should all be working together, but you're seeing a lot of activity with use cases around those kind of kinetic capabilities.

With the supply chain, There's multiple levels to the supply chain.