{"id":72201,"date":"2025-12-05T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2025\/12\/05\/autonomous-surface-vessels-to-join-pentagons-global-c2-network\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:29:15","slug":"autonomous-surface-vessels-to-join-pentagons-global-c2-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/unmanned\/2025\/12\/05\/autonomous-surface-vessels-to-join-pentagons-global-c2-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Autonomous surface vessels to join Pentagon\u2019s global C2 network"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Autonomous surface vessels will become part of the global command and control network used by the U.S. Navy and other U.S. military services due to a new partnership between HavocAI and SAIC, effectively making the vessels an integrated part of U.S. naval surface power and expanding their availability to serve all U.S. military branches for the first time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agreement announced by SAIC and HavocAI last month will see a link-up between HavocAI\u2019s autonomous surface vessels and SAIC\u2019s advanced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saic.com\/jre\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.saic.com\/jre\">joint range extension gateway<\/a>. The JRE currently streamlines communications for U.S. and allied military forces worldwide and will extend the range of Link 16, a vast, all-domain global C2 infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This new move puts nimble autonomous surface vessels able to sweep wide stretches of ocean at the click of a button at the immediate disposal of the Navy and other military forces linked to the JRE gateway. Leadership of both companies shared the details with Defense News in an exclusive interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBeing able to be interoperable with the existing network infrastructure with U.S., allied and partner navies is the biggest part,\u201d Barbara Supplee, Executive Vice President, Navy Business Group at SAIC told Defense News. \u201cWe are piping the information on a much more expanded range. It\u2019s taking the innovation that HavocAI is putting in the water and matching it with the existing networks.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Unmanned teamwork<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The small vessels made by HavocAI operate as teams using its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.havocai.com\/the-stack\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.havocai.com\/the-stack\">Collaborative Autonomy Stack <\/a>system. They can maneuver through harsh environments and perform various tasks independently with minimal human oversight, such as surveillance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe vessels communicate with each other. They\u2019re always talking to each other to try to figure out how to execute something efficiently. The only kind of humans involved are in tasking,\u201d Paul Lwin, co-founder and CEO of HavocAI, told Defense News. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to the new pairing with SAIC, the vessels will now feed information back to military command centers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey [the vessels] will connect to Link 16 and all C2 systems at the strategic level,\u201d Lwin added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Undersea experiments<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The JRE has seen investments over the last two years to expand its cloud-based capabilities, but the communications infrastructure already offers robust opportunities for autonomous technology, Supplee told Defense News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, both companies have already partnered to test technology using undersea vessels, which they believe they can potentially expand. \u201cWe\u2019ve experimented with it. 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The communications can work today,\u201d Supplee said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lwin said that HavocAI\u2019s use of Starlink can expand the potential of the autonomous surface vessels to communicate with underwater systems. \u201cWe can put acoustic modems on our vessels and allow them to communicate with undersea vessels,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Potential areas of operations<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vessels\u2019 new link-up to the military\u2019s premier C2 infrastructure is hoped to strengthen the Navy\u2019s hybrid fleet and project U.S. seapower in contested areas, such as near the Philippines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe believe that this partnership is going to help the Navy realize its vision of thousands of these small USV capable platforms of operating in tandem hybridity in these contested environments,\u201d Supplee said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWith autonomous systems, you want to remove humans from danger,\u201d Lwin said. \u201cYou can send thousands of these out with their sensors, figure out what\u2019s going on in these island chains and send that information back to the crews without putting humans at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vessels could potentially be used in the Arctic as well, Lwin told Defense News. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Future uses<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both companies hope that being proactive in combining their strengths will not only expand their technology currently being used in the field but open up new possibilities, they said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re working to solve the problem at hand in advance of even the requirement so that we can help the Navy scale where it\u2019s needed,\u201d Supplee said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HavocAI said that the vessels are easy to manufacture and could be produced en masse quickly over the next few years if needed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe want to be able to get the U.S. Navy the option right now to deploy thousands of these,\u201d Lwin said. \u201dWhat we\u2019re building right now is no longer science fiction. 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