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autonomous unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) with integrated sensors and processing.

Since the company’s beginnings, its vehicles have featured a free-? ooded design with open architecture that permits in- tegration with a variety of sensors and payloads to be adapt- ed to any mission. The open architecture allows for data collection devices and batteries, such as the company’s Re- movable Data Storage Module (RDSM) and removable 1.9 kWh Li-ion battery, to be readily swapped out for long mis-

MIT, General Dynamics sions and short turn-arounds. This modularity also permits the vehicles to be disassembled for rapid shipment around

General Dynamics Mission the world. The team also publishes its interface speci? ca-

Systems Blue? n Robo ics tions, making it easier for partners to ensure their sensors https://gdmissionsystems.com/underwater-vehicles/ and systems can work with the Blue? n architecture. While blue? n-robotics the company has recently introduced updated 12-inch and

It’s been 25 years since MIT engineers Dr. James Belling- 9-inch vehicles, the Blue? n-21 has been the ? agship system ham and Frank van Mierlo started their entrepreneurial un- for over two decades, and is the basis for a number of unique derwater robotics company in a former auto-parts warehouse vehicles, as well as programs of record, such as the Knife- a few blocks from MIT. Eventually the company moved into ? sh surface mine countermeasure (SMCM) UUV. a large waterfront facility in Quincy, Massachusetts. To- As Knife? sh production ramps up, the company has moved day, Blue? n Robotics, a business segment within General the assembly line from Quincy to its new UUV center of ex-

Dynamics Mission Systems, is building upon its legacy of cellence at Taunton, Massachusetts.

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