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Undersea warfare system developer Ultra Maritime has announced a partnership with emerging American defence contractor Anduril Industries to produce next-generation unmanned subsea sensing capability.
The partnership is expected to bring together Ultra Maritime’s Sea Spear deployable acoustic arrays and AI-enabled acoustic processing with Anduril’s Lattice communications framework and undersea autonomy capabilities such as Dive XL and Seabed Sentry.
“(The initial concept will use) Anduril’s Dive XL to autonomously deliver and deploy Anduril’s Seabed Sentry modular undersea payload system, which in turn hosts Ultra Maritime’s Sea Spear lightweight sensing array as a payload,” according to a statement from Ultra Maritime.
“Once deployed, Sea Spear pushes Sonar processing to the tactical edge using modern AI techniques.
“The system then uses acoustic communications and Anduril’s Lattice framework to provide users real-time, autonomous submarine sensing.
“Multiple systems can be deployed in a distributed manner, enabling a user to see detects distributed across large ocean areas. The joint effort is well underway and achieves end-to-end in-water testing in 2025.”
The partnership is envisioned to provide low-cost, low-risk anti-submarine warfare capability at a time when submarines are growing quieter and greater in number.
Low-cost, widespread anti-submarine detection has been hampered by range, endurance, sensitivity, communication, scale and autonomous or uncrewed technology maturity issues.
