21 May 2024
by Jeremiah Cushman
BlueHalo is partnering with Kraken Technology Group to supply autonomy capabilities and payloads for its unmanned surface vehicles including the K4 Manta, pictured above. (BlueHalo)
US company BlueHalo has partnered with Kraken Technology Group in the UK to integrate its artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)-backed autonomous mission systems into Kraken’s unmanned maritime platforms, the companies announced in a joint statement on 3 May.
The co-operation will focus on integrating BlueHalo’s autonomy capabilities with various Kraken unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) and unmanned surface/subsurface vehicles (USSVs) as well as multidomain ‘marsupial’ capabilities. A marsupial capability involves the delivery of a payload to a forward position in a protected fashion, Jonathan Moneymaker, CEO of BlueHalo, told
Janes
on 16 May. In this case, the K4 Manta USSV dives and then surfaces near the target location to deliver a payload such as an unmanned aircraft system (UAS), a swarm of UASs, a counter-UAS (C-UAS) capability, or various systems for contested logistics, he said.
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