On April 23, 2025, the Marine Corps Installations Pacific (MCIPAC) reported that on April 9, the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit’s Combat Logistics Battalion conducted training at the Kin Red Training Area in Okinawa, Japan.

Saronic today announced the expansion of its family of Autonomous Surface Vessels (ASVs) with the addition of two new models: the 40-foot Mirage and the 60-foot Cipher.

In a significant demonstration of the trilateral AUKUS security partnership’s Pillar II objectives, Congressman Joe Courtney has christened a new unmanned undersea surveillance vessel named Outpost TM001.

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HD HHI) announced Tuesday that it has secured a contract from the Korean Navy to conduct a concept design project for a combat unmanned surface vehicle (USV), marking its formal entry into the growing USV development race.

The Defense Innovation Unit has released a solicitation for the Combat Autonomous Maritime Platform, a large unmanned underwater vessel capable of supporting large payloads at range in contested environments.

Saronic accelerates its growth into autonomous shipbuilding with the acquisition of Gulf Craft, a Louisiana-based shipbuilder with a 60-year history of developing manned and unmanned ships for defense and commercial customers.

American shipbuilder Metal Shark has unveiled its latest unmanned surface vessel, the HSMUSV, at the Sea-Air-Space 2025 exposition held from April 7 to 9 in National Harbor, Maryland.

Seoul: South Korean shipbuilder HD Hyundai Heavy Industries said on Sunday it has partnered with US artificial intelligence (AI) company Palantir Technologies to co-develop an unmanned surface vessel (USV) for maritime surveillance.