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Vessels & Vehicles

Ørsted has designed and developed

Ørsted Invents, and patented an uncrewed surface vessel (USV) dubbed Hugin USV for offshore met-ocean measurement campaigns. The USV has a built-in

Patents New USV navigation system, which enables it to transit from shore at various degrees of autonomy, and it can be controlled both in line-of-sight or from a beyond-line- of-sight remote control center. The USV is designed as a generic sensor platform and can collect large amounts of data.

The prototype was built by Tuco Ma- rine Group, and the control system was delivered by Maritime Robotics AS.

The prototype vessel has been tested in

Danish and Norwegian waters and has been operational during hurricane con- ditions, where it experienced waves up to nine meters in the North Sea. Hugin

USV has also achieved type validation as a ? oating LiDAR system by DNV, enabling it to be used for commercial operations related to wind farm devel- opment. The results are so good that

Ørsted has started a serial production of a new class of USVs. The plan is to pro- duce ? ve new USVs by the end of 2023.

Source: Ørsted

Austal USA inks Deal to Design, Build Ocean Surveillance Ships

Austal USA won a contract potentially worth more than $3 billion for the detail design and construction of new TAGOS-25 class ocean surveillance ships for the U.S. Navy. The $113.9 million ? xed-price incentive (? rm target) and ? rm-? xed-price contract includes options for detail design and construction of up to seven T-AGOS 25 class ships which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of the contract to $3.195 billion. Austal, as the prime contractor for the TAGOS program, has teamed with L3Harris Technologies (L3Harris), who will serve as electronic and propul- sion systems integrator. Other contractor partners include Noise Control Engineering (NCE), TAI Engineering (TAI) and Thoma-

Sea Marine Constructors (TMC). Operated by Military Sealift Command (MSC), T-

AGOS ships provide a platform capable of passive and active anti-submarine acoustic surveillance for the Navy’s Atlantic and Pa- ci? c Fleets. The 110-meter, steel ‘small wa- terplane area twin hull’ (SWATH) vessels support the Navy’s Integrated Undersea

Surveillance System (IUSS) by gathering underwater acoustical data using Surveil- lance Towed-Array Sensor System (SUR-

TASS) equipment.

Source: Austal USA 40 July/August 2023

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