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The United States Navy, led by Admiral John

Richardson who graduated from the U.S. Naval

Academy in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science in Physics, a master’s degrees in electrical en- gineering from the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic

Institution, and National Security Strategy from the National War College, is one of the world’s leading purveyors and developers of subsea technology. Several years ago at the home of then-CNO Admiral (Ret.) Gary Roughead, Ma- rine Technology Reporter was invited to take part in a meeting and discussion on the future of unmanned underwater systems, a meeting with a clear signal: improve subsea technologies, particularly in the area of power density, to al- low the Navy to carry out its missions in a safer and more ef