Product profile
Sea Dart
Sea Dart is Leidos' compact, payload-agnostic uncrewed undersea vessel designed for affordable underwater survey, infrastructure monitoring, counter-mine a...
Facts
- Company
- Leidos
- Product type
- auv
- Status
- development
- Primary capability
- underwater_survey
- Website
- https://www.leidos.com/insights/leidos-unveils-newest-unmanned-undersea-vessel
About Sea Dart
Sea Dart is Leidos' compact, payload-agnostic uncrewed undersea vessel designed for affordable underwater survey, infrastructure monitoring, counter-mine and environmental missions.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Small uncrewed underwater vehicle
Core: Low-cost payload-agnostic UUV
Function: Provides flexible underwater sensing and survey capability where affordable deployment matters
Audience: Navies, commercial survey teams and marine researchers
Specifications
- battery_compatibility
- Compatible with the U.S. Navy's non-propagating UUV battery design
- payload_architecture
- Payload agnostic; configurable customer payloads
- software_compatibility
- Compatible with the U.S. Navy's preferred Underwater Vehicle software architecture
- standard_diameters
- 6-inch and 9-inch variants
- transportability
- Transportable by one or two people
Operations
- Environment
- coastal_water, underwater, high_risk_maritime_environment
- Primary user
- naval_operators, marine_researchers, critical_infrastructure_operators
- Role
- underwater_survey, infrastructure_monitoring, counter_mine_operations, environmental_sensing, payload_integration
- Interaction model
- autonomous_mission_execution, remote_supervision, payload_integrated_operation
- Mobility class
- autonomous_underwater_vehicle
- Product detail
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