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Autonomous Undersea and Surface Vehicles (AUV and ASV)
April 29
April 29, 2025
8:00AM (EDT)
“Hybrid” Qualification Demonstration: Autonomous Undersea & Surface Vehicles
Join us for an opportunity to witness selected NETB prize challenge applicants to showcase their technology in the field of Autonomous Undersea and Surface Vehicles (AUV and ASV).
This demonstration will focus on autonomous and swarm-enabled operations for critical missions such as reconnaissance, intervention, and perimeter security. Technologies that perform fine-motor manipulation for AUVs, enabling the retrieval and securing of objects, as well as real-time AI-assisted target recognition and decision-making for both AUV and ASV fleets, will be featured.
Participants will have 15 minutes to present their technology’s capabilities and its relevance to government-defined missions, followed by up to 10 minutes of Q&A with an evaluation panel of experts from the US Navy, DoD, and other federal, academic, and non-profit partners.
Companies with top-scoring technologies will be awarded approximately $7,500 and will be invited to participate in the culminating in-water experiment event on 28 August 2025. Up to four companies with top-scoring technologies will be awarded a total of $200,000 at the BlueTIDE 2025 event. For more information on BlueTIDE 2025, click here.
Observers can attend the presentations either in-person or virtually, with the potential to ask questions during the Q&A as time permits.