Verified Events
DateTypeCompanyHeadlineSegment
Exail wins Marins navigation award for unnamed navy’s USV fleet
- Marins provides position, heading, attitude and velocity data when GNSS signals are degraded, jammed or spoofed.
- The equipment uses fibre-optic gyroscope technology already deployed on naval surface vessels, submarines and underwater vehicles.
KONGSBERG reports five-minute DR100 setup at Interpol counter-drone exercise
- Sensor data reached the control centre through a secure 5G connection.
- The exercise evaluated detection, tracking and classification of airborne objects.
- Kinetic and non-kinetic effectors were outside the test scope; the trial does not establish an interception result or procurement award.
MARTAC adds SEA.AI machine vision to USV sensor architecture
- Onboard AI classifies contacts and reports object type, heading and proximity in real time rather than sending only raw camera footage.
- The visual intelligence complements radar and AIS, including contacts that do not broadcast an AIS identity.
Sagar Defence and Lloyd’s Register sign maritime autonomy assurance MoU
- Work covers verification, validation, testing and classification-readiness assessments.
- The partners will develop operational concepts, mission profiles and safety cases with regulators and government agencies.
- System-level assurance will consider vessels, sensors, communications, remote operators and infrastructure under degraded and failure conditions.
OPT PowerBuoy Mini selected for U.S. government evaluation
- The baseline combines 1.6 kW solar generation, one wind turbine and 28 kWh of energy storage.
- Remote control, diagnostics, communications and configurable payload interfaces support offshore assessment.
- Participation is an evaluation selection, with no contract award, procurement decision or government endorsement.
Exail starts production of Indonesian unmanned mine-countermeasures systems
- Production has begun on four Inspector 90 USVs with Seascan mine-identification ROVs and K-Ster disposal systems.
- Exail will integrate selected third-party towed sonar and influence sweeps, including Henriksen HEMLIS on the Inspector 90 vessels.
- The June2025 contract includes integration and personnel training in France and Indonesia; production start is separate from delivery.
Exail details H1 maritime robotics profitability as programmes ramp
- The segment's current EBITDA margin reached 24%, supported by greater absorption of production costs as maritime robotics programmes ramped.
- Higher navigation-system production and deliveries also contributed to profitability; the group recorded €275 million revenue and €63 million current EBITDA.
- Retrospective accounting restatements affected reported net income but left current EBITDA and cash flows unchanged.
Robosys evaluates VOYAGER AI in MARIN’s maritime autonomy testbed
- The scenarios included head-on, crossing and overtaking encounters, multi-target interactions and recovery after avoidance.
- Additional cases used dense AIS traffic, fishing-vessel operations, near-shore navigation and randomly generated encounters.
- The test programme extends a relationship that began in 2018 through a Dutch autonomous-shipping joint industry project.
Kongsberg Discovery joins opening of shared Horten Horizon facility
- The shared site provides 700 workspaces and 2,000 square metres of production space, including laboratories and test areas.
- Nine test pools and a fully automated warehouse support work across divisions and business units.
Ocean Power Technologies receives Naval Postgraduate School order for WAM-V 8
- NPS CRUSER researchers plan to integrate atmospheric and electro-optical instrumentation on the compact, shallow-draft platform.
- The order extends a relationship that already includes an OPT PowerBuoy deployed in Monterey Bay for oceanographic and maritime-sensing research.
VideoRay selected for AEVEX-led Navy mine-countermeasure prototype
- The Defender launched and recovered autonomously from an unmanned surface vessel, with operators supervising from a ground control station.
- Trials covered target investigation, simulated neutralisation and post-action assessment, alongside autonomous vessel transit and stationkeeping.
- The selection followed a Navy and Defense Innovation Unit challenge in which BlackSea, now AEVEX Maritime Systems, was one of three prize winners.
Avikus wins HiNAS order for 10 Hyundai Glovis newbuild car carriers
- Each 10,800-CEU vessel will receive HiNAS Control and Surround View Monitoring.
- Some vessels have been delivered, with the remaining newbuilds scheduled through 2028.
- The order follows a 2024 pilot and adoption on seven in-service vessels in 2025, bringing the planned equipped fleet to 18 ships.
Greensea IQ Bayonet 150 completes offshore launch from modified WAM-V 16
- OPT modified the WAM-V 16 to transport the 300-pound crawler and release its umbilical remotely.
- After separation, the crawler travelled from the offshore release point to shore under Greensea IQ's control system.
- The test focused on transport, launch and safe separation between the two vehicles.
Kraken and Saab UK sea-test K3 SCOUT with Giraffe 1X radar
- The radar is integrated into K3 SCOUT’s modular payload bay for surveillance and early-warning applications.
- The companies took the configuration from concept to a working prototype in less than seven months.
- Both the vessel and radar are manufactured in Fareham, United Kingdom.
Kraken K3 Scout hosts Voyant GNSS-denied navigation trial
- The software compares live radar imagery with terrain-reference maps using particle-filter algorithms.
- The demonstration formed part of a UK Ministry of Defence resilient Position, Navigation and Timing initiative.
- The announced purpose is to support navigation and asset recovery when satellite positioning is unavailable or denied.
BeeX wins DIU and U.S. Navy mine-countermeasures prize
- The drones reacquired and neutralized bottom and volume mine threats from a safe standoff distance.
- Evaluations included high-latency, low-bandwidth over-the-horizon communications and untethered reacquisition of moored mines.
- The platforms operated independently of a dedicated mine-countermeasures vessel.
Maritime Robotics and Skarv demonstrate coordinated USV–AUV mine-countermeasure operations
- Mariner X followed the AUV survey track and relayed status, contact reports and retasking to shore.
- CORAX 600 used sidescan sonar and close-range optical inspection.
- The exercise demonstration followed earlier joint IXES testing; no commercial order or operational naval deployment is announced.
MRV Systems joins shared $51.2 million U.S. Navy IDIQ and receives first task order
- The $51.2 million ceiling is shared across the three awardees; task orders are competed and the framework guarantees no minimum order volume or revenue.
- MRV is also working with the Navy on air-deployment certification for a next-generation float.
- The company joined General Oceans in April 2026 and supplies scientific floats to the global Argo programme.
KOAI signs two-year surface-robot validation contract with KOEM
- KOEM will provide wave-basin testing, vessels, response facilities and specialist personnel.
- Work includes integrated control-platform operation, real-sea trials and commercialization consulting.
- Development targets integrated surface and underwater perception and autonomous navigation.
KONGSBERG wins Dutch JLTV counter-UAS contract from Oshkosh Defense Europe
- The configuration combines sensors, targeting and effectors to detect, track and engage unmanned aircraft.
- Oshkosh Defense Europe is integrating the capability on JLTVs for the Royal Netherlands Armed Forces.
Zeabuz Virtual Cable Ferry enters operation on Åland’s Simskäla route
- Commissioning proceeded without interrupting the ferry’s regular operations.
- A single button starts a crossing, with the system managing navigation for consistent timing and energy use.
- Current regulations still require the physical cable; future cable-free operations depend on regulatory changes.
Kraken and Shield AI demonstrate Hivemind teaming on two K3 Scouts
- Onboard radar, cameras and AIS data supported cooperative search, detection and classification.
- The two vessels tracked and escorted a contact before replanning and resuming their search.
ACUA and Forssea complete more than 40 remote ROV launch-and-recovery cycles
- The campaign covered six days at sea and up to eight launch-and-recovery cycles in one day.
- ARGOS inspected seabed features in more than 20 metres of water with up to 35 metres of tether deployed.
- Control ran from Turnchapel Wharf with Forssea supervision from Sète, including operation in two-metre waves.
Nauticus Robotics signs non-binding strategic equity LOI
- The proposed investment is intended to support the company’s short- and long-term commercial objectives in autonomous subsea robotics.
- The board is evaluating the proposal and may engage an independent financial adviser.
- The investor has no binding funding obligation; due diligence, definitive agreements, approvals and closing conditions remain.