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INTERVIEW BOEING oeing delivered the ? rst Orca

Extra Large Uncrewed Under- sea Vehicle (XLUUV) to the

BU.S Navy following acceptance testing, the ? rst of six Orca XLUUVs to be delivered to the U.S. Navy over the next 18 months. The ? rst unit is to be used as a test asset for the Navy, so it doesn’t have a payload section, said Ann Stevens,

VP, Boeing Maritime and Intelligence

Systems.

The XLUUV, designated by the Navy as “Orca,” is a new class of autonomous sub- marine designed for long duration critical missions to achieve undersea maritime dominance. “This is the culmination of more than a decade of work, developing a long-range, fully autonomous undersea

ORCA vehicle with a large payload capacity that can operate independently of a host vehi- cle,” said Stevens. Back around 2010/11, then Chief of Naval Operations (CNO)

Admiral Gary Roughead and the U.S.

XLUUV

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