Sea
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QinetiQ’s submarine support work sharpens AUKUS sustainment planning in Australia. Additive manufacturing cut replacement-part delivery to four weeks during HMS Anson’s maintenance period.
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The US Navy is testing autonomous shipbuilding through MUSV demonstrations. Seven companies will take medium unmanned surface vessel designs into at-sea evaluation.
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ESNA’s surface effect craft targets Arctic littoral commando operations requirements. The proposed vessel combines speed, payload flexibility, shallow beaching, and drone integration for future UK-Norwegian use.
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AUKUS partners are moving undersea autonomy into practical industrial delivery. The first Pillar II signature project will develop payloads and enabling systems for uncrewed underwater vehicles from 2027.
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Lockheed’s ICS baseline shifts Navy combat systems towards software cadence. The delivery introduces common infrastructure, containerised software, and faster fleetwide capability updates.
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The Royal Navy has docked Ariadne inside RFA Lyme Bay. The trial advances the UK’s shift towards mothership-supported autonomous mine countermeasures.
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Hanwha Ocean has turned Canada’s submarine competition into pier-side theatre. ROKS Dosan Ahn Changho gives the KSS-III bid a live platform for endurance, production maturity, and sustainment credibility.
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South Korea has set a nuclear-submarine target for the mid-2030s. The Jang Bogo N plan puts naval reactors, submarine construction, systems integration, and long-term sustainment into a single domestic industrial programme.
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HII has highlighted REMUS and ROMULUS autonomy at Farnborough event. The showcase links unmanned underwater vehicles, autonomous surface vessels, control software, and UK sustainment capacity around allied naval autonomy.
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Boeing’s MQ-25A Stingray has now cleared low-rate initial production approval. The decision moves the carrier-based unmanned tanker from development toward controlled production, testing the industrial base behind naval aviation autonomy.