The Manta Ray, developed by DARPA, is a revolutionary unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) that will change everything about how ...

The U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research has posted a Request for Proposals for the Ocean Explorer (OEX), a new “ultra-large” ...

Taking a plot point from the 1990 Sean Connery movie thriller The Hunt for Red October, DARPA is working on a super-silent submarine drive that has no moving parts and provides propulsion through ...

DARPA’s Manta Ray is an autonomous, uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) that can operate at depths that traditional submersibles can’t reach. The Manta Ray program was launched in 2020 to improve ...

The Manta Ray program looks to build a "new class of long-duration, long-range, payload-capable UUVs," according to DARPA.

DARPA recently announced that a full-scale test of the prototype uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) had taken place off the coast of Southern California in February and March of this year.

DARPA’s program, known as Principles of Undersea Magnetohydrodynamic Pumps (PUMP), kicked off in late May. As the agency describes in its industry solicitation, the goal of the program is to ...

DARPA is trying to use new more powerful superconducting magnets to triple the efficiency of a Magnetohydrodynamic drive for ultra-quiet navy ships. The PUMP program will develop an electrode material ...

DARPA, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is now working on developing a magnet-driven silent water propulsion system – the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) drive. The primary reason is to ...