The partnership aims to provide a high-quality cost-effective anti-submarine warfare capability.

Anduril Industries and Ultra Maritime are proud to announce a new partnership to develop a new capability in next generation uncrewed subsea sensing, making it possible for US and allied nations to enhance their submarine detection capabilities rapidly and inexpensively.

By bringing together Ultra Maritime’s innovative Sea Spear deployable acoustic arrays and AI enabled acoustic processing with Anduril’s undersea autonomy capabilities, including Dive XL and Seabed Sentry, plus Anduril’s Lattice communications framework, the partnership will provide a major advance in distributed, low-cost undersea surveillance.

As adversary submarines grow quieter and greater in number, the need for low-cost solutions to submarine detection grows.

Autonomous systems provide a clear path to low-cost, low-risk anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capability, but have to date been hampered by inadequate technology. Issues of range, endurance, sensitivity, communication, scale and more have limited advances in autonomous or uncrewed ASW.

Anduril and Ultra Maritime have developed an innovative approach to make autonomous undersea ASW possible.

The concept uses 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. 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 detect objects of interest across large ocean areas. The joint effort is well underway and achieves end-to-end in-water testing in 2025.

About Ultra Maritime

Ultra Maritime provides innovative multi-missions solutions for surface, sub-surface and uncrewed platforms that protect and empower naval forces worldwide. Headquartered in Braintree, Massachusetts, Ultra Maritime employs more than 2,300 engineers and manufacturing experts worldwide, specialising in state-of-the-art sonar systems, radar, expendables, signature management and naval power systems. With major locations in Australia, Canada, the UK and US, Ultra Maritime is primed to support customers’ maritime missions around the globe.

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