Houston, Texas – Oceaneering International, Inc. announces today that its Subsea Robotics and Aerospace and Defense Technologies segments were awarded a multi-million-dollar contract by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) of the U.S. Department of Defense to build a Freedom™ Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) and establish an Onshore Remote Operations Center (OROC) for the U.S. Navy.
The award highlights Oceaneering’s ability to leverage technology originally developed to support the offshore energy industry into other markets.The vehicle will be manufactured at Oceaneering’s Morgan City, Louisiana facility.
Oceaneering has conducted remote operations of commercial subsea robotic systems from OROCs since 2015 and has performed over 120,000 hours of remote operations to date.
Source: Oceaneering News Release
