Examples of USV in a sentence
The illustration was also included as Slide 2 in a Navy briefing entitled “Designing & Building the Surface Fleet: Unmanned and Small Combatants,” by Rear Admiral Casey Moton at a June 20, 2019, conference of the American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE).Notes: Each sphere represents a ship or a USV.
LSC means large surface combatant (i.e., cruiser or destroyer); SSC means small surface combatant (i.e., frigate or Littoral Combat Ship); LUSV means large USV; MUSV means medium USV.
Navy officials have also suggested that the Navy in coming years may shift to a new surface force architecture that will include, among other things, a larger proportion of small surface combatants.Figure 2 shows a Navy briefing slide depicting the potential new surface force architecture, with each sphere representing a manned ship or an unmanned surface vehicle (USV).
The large UVs discussed in this CRS report fall into the top two USV categories in Figure 1 and the top UUV category in Figure 2.The smaller UVs shown in the other categories of Figure 1 and Figure 2, which are not covered in this report, can be deployed from manned Navy ships and submarines to extend the operational reach of those ships and submarines.
LUSVs and MUSVs, in contrast, are equipped primarily with weapons (blue) or sensors (green).In the figure, each sphere represents a manned ship or USV.
Navy USV Systems Vision Source: Slide 3 of briefing by Captain Pete Small, Program Manager, Unmanned Maritime Systems (PMS 406), entitled “Unmanned Maritime Systems Update,” January 15, 2019, accessed May 22, 2019, at https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Portals/103/Documents/Exhibits/SNA2019/UnmannedMaritimeSys-Small.pdf?ver= 2019-01-15-165105-297.
The program team includes Gibbs & Cox and Incat Crowther who will provide the ship design and Swiftships will complete the construction of the vehicle.L3Harris is a world leader in actively powered Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) systems, with over 115 USVs delivered worldwide.
Sea Hunter Prototype Medium Displacement USV Source: Photograph credited to U.S. Navy accompanying John Grady, “Panel: Unmanned Surface Vessels Will be Significant Part of Future U.S. Fleet,” USNI News, April 15, 2019.
Megan Eckstein, “Navy Pushing to Maintain 2023 USV Program of Record Timeline,” USNI News, September 8, 2020.
Navy USV and UUV CategoriesAs shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2, the Navy organizes its USV acquisition programs into four size-based categories that the Navy calls large, medium, small, and very small, and its UUV acquisition programs similarly into four size-based categories that the Navy calls extra-large, large, medium, and small.