Highlights
Serco's innovative work in the unmanned maritime space caught the attention of Carlos Del Toro, United States Secretary of the Navy, who stopped by for a first-hand look on our exciting design and concepts. Pictured below: VADM McLane, Serco MEO Ryan Maatta (NOMARS Deputy Program Manager), Sec Navy Carlos Del Toro, and SVP Serco METS Michael Fortune.
Serco is the prime contractor for the DARPA NOMARS Program (program named for 'No Manning Required Ship')
Serco's Ryan Maatta, Lead Engineer, was recently interview by Naval News on the teams' work on the DARPA NOMARS program. The program is aimed to increase fleet capability at a greatly reduced cost, providing a significantly more efficient cost per mission hour over current crewed or partially crewed vessels being advertised as unmanned. These projects are designed to improve operational efficiency, and most notably protect the lives and safety of our sailors.
-The NOMARS "Defiant" is Serco’s completely unmanned autonomous surface vessel currently under construction for DARPA. As Ryan Maatta stated in his Naval News interview, the NOMARS Defiant vessel has been designed to complete the mission without the additional burden to Navy’s recruiting, port facilities, and existing maintenance infrastructure – all major challenges plaguing the growth of the future surface fleet.
The 'Dauntless' concept model
-The Dauntless conceptual model is a larger autonomous vessel concept design, providing more room for combat and mission systems on deck in addition to meeting higher fleet speeds.
Solutions
Naval Design and Engineering
Serco provides comprehensive design and engineering services to support next-generation capabilities and the modernization and sustainment of core weapons systems, including surface ships, submarines, amphibious, aircraft, ground, and unmanned platforms.
Naval Architecture
Serco offers a full lifecycle approach for maritime assets from concept and ship design all the way to modernization, sustainment and operations support. Our track record spans vessels operating in the most demanding conditions, from icebreakers to submarines and from advanced military ships to next-generation green transport.
Naval Modernization
Serco is a proven partner for large-scale, complex modernization programs of strategic platforms at sea, on the ground, in the air, and in space with integrated design and installation capabilities.
Maritime Acquisition Expertise
Serco has supported the design and procurement of every major ship class for the U.S. Navy for the past four decades and several significant new ships for the Royal Canadian Navy. Our world-class capabilities in naval architecture and vendor-neutral approach allow us to place client objectives first.