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The former is a 150-pound small UUV that could be carried in and out of the water by a couple sailors; the latter is a 600-pound medium UUV primarily launched and recovered from a rigid-hull inflatable boat. The pair can be used for mine countermeasures and ocean survey, and the popular <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secnav.navy.mil\/innovation\/Pages\/2017\/07\/ExMCM.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">expeditionary mine countermeasures company (ExMCM) <\/a>was built around an unmanned systems platoon that uses both vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The medium-size Razorback UUV has a program history more than a decade long, with the Navy initially seeking a UUV that could sense the littoral battlespace. The UUV the Navy first bought under the Razorback name will be launched and recovered via the dry deck shelter on some submarines, though the Navy has since changed course and is seeking a follow-on version that would be launched and recovered from a submarine torpedo tube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These older technologies are reaching their limits even while the Navy continues to develop new sensors, target-recognition software and more that they\u2019d like to put to sea, said Capt. Dan Malatesta, the program manager for expeditionary missions within the Program Executive Office for Unmanned and Small Combatants. The Lionfish small UUV and the Viperfish medium UUV programs that will replace these three legacy programs are both making good progress and should be ready to replace their predecessors in the next two to three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lionfish completed a second user operational evaluation with an ExMCM company in May, he said Aug. 3 at the Navy League\u2019s annual Sea Air Space conference. Two existing vehicles \u2014 L3Harris Technologies\u2032 Iver 4 and Huntington Ingalls Industries\u2019 Remus 300 \u2014 are being considered for the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lionfish would replace the Mk 18 Mod 1, which is based off the Remus 100 design from Huntington Ingalls. Malatesta said during his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navsea.navy.mil\/Portals\/103\/Documents\/Exhibits\/SAS2021\/SAS2021-Expeditionary%20Missions.pdf\">program update at the Naval Sea Systems Command booth<\/a> the Mk 18 Mod 1 vehicle, which first saw use in Iraq in 2003, has \u201ckind of maxed out its capability for computing power and those sort of things.\u201d As a result, the Navy can\u2019t integrate the newest sensors, autonomy packages and other updates onto the aging platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the medium UUV side, the Razorback and the Mk 18 Mod 2 will merge into a single program called Viperfish. Malatesta said the Mk 18 Mod 2 and the Razorback are both based off the Remus 600 UUV design, so merging them into a single program won\u2019t change the basics of how ExMCM companies or submarines handle and operate them. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secnav.navy.mil\/innovation\/Pages\/2017\/07\/ExMCM.aspx\">Viperfish is in source selection<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the Navy is working closely with the ExMCM operators to understand the upgrades they need for their current Mk 18 Mod 2s. These include better sonars and cameras for clearer pictures of potential threats in the water, automatic target recognition aides, autonomy software so the UUV can decide to circle back around to a potential item of interest and provide additional imagery for processing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An EOD officer himself, Malatesta said being in the program office \u201chas been very beneficial to have that tight loop [with EOD colleagues in operational units] to get those requirements. So we are working on all those things. Automatic target recognition, we\u2019ve brought it to the topside, so after they recover the vehicle, but we\u2019re looking to put that in the vehicle\u201d for target recognition in-stride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAll those things we\u2019re doing for the Mod 2 \u2014 so whether that\u2019s [automatic target recognition] or [artificial intelligence and machine learning] that we are starting to implement into the vehicle \u2014 the idea is to move those over to the Viperfish,\u201d Malatesta added. \u201cThe Viperfish competition is really about the vehicle directly \u2026 and, as we continue to mature those [new capabilities] in the Mod 2, we\u2019ll have that same capability in the Viperfish.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a slide Malatesta showed, the first eight ExMCM companies are already outfitted with Mk 18 Mod 2 UUVs. 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