Overview
- Huntington Ingalls Industries has had a Navy option-year production contract exercised for the Lionfish small unmanned undersea vehicle program, moving the system from prototype into an active production phase.
- The contract could fund a program of up to five years and scale to about 200 vehicles with total potential value above $347 million according to HII.
- Lionfish is built on HII’s commercial REMUS 300 modular platform, which was developed with the U.S. Navy and the Defense Innovation Unit to speed prototype-to-production transition under an Other Transaction Authority arrangement.
- The platform is designed for multiple undersea missions, including mine countermeasures, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, anti-submarine warfare, and electronic warfare, and HII says it is the Navy’s only cyber-compliant UUV currently in production.
- HII highlights REMUS pedigree and sustainment as context for the award, noting more than 700 REMUS vehicles delivered to over 30 countries and high in-service rates, a fact that could speed Navy integration and wider allied use of the Lionfish family.