The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), has awarded contracts to private sector companies as part of a project to demonstrate the use of long-range unmanned surface vessels for naval operations. The contracts were awarded to Applied Physical Sciences Corp., Gibbs & Cox Maritime Solutions, and InMar Technologies. Specifically, the companies will be working on a program called Sea Train. This follows news last week that contracts totaling nearly $42 million were awarded to six companies to study adding large unmanned vessels to the U.S. Navy fleet.
