Northrop Grumman announced the completion of the assembly of the first large-scale, underwater unmanned vehicle (UUV), Manta Ray, to perform in oceans.
Manta Ray is a program of the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for a highly advanced underwater, unmanned vehicle to meet some requirements:
New energy management techniques for UUV operations and undersea energy harvesting techniques.
Techniques for managing missions of extended duration in dynamically changing maritime environments.
Innovative ideas of exploiting existing data and new parameters aim to create a command, control and communications system (C3) combined with high-performance underwater navigation.
