Overview
- The Defense Innovation Unit awarded Textron Systems a contract on Friday to deliver multiple TSUNAMI uncrewed surface vessels.
- The vessels will support the Navy’s Fleet Experimentation exercise in Key West before three months of joint operations with Fourth Fleet and U.S. Southern Command.
- Textron will provide long-dwell interceptor variants and embed Field Service Representatives to keep the systems running during the events.
- Planned trials will link the USVs with an Aerosonde 4.7 vertical‑takeoff drone launched from a Littoral Combat Ship to share intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting data.
- The exercise will also test crewed–uncrewed surface warfare using Invariant Corporation’s STAKE system, as TSUNAMI draws on Brunswick-built hulls and Textron’s CUSV autonomy that led to its new Multi Mission USV.