The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the US Navy have selected defense technology firm Anduril Industries to help advance the development of extra-large autonomous underwater vehicles (XL-AUVs ).
The selection comes under the Combat Autonomous Maritime Platform (CAMP) initiative, a US Department of Defense program designed to rapidly prototype and field large autonomous maritime systems capable of carrying substantial payloads over long distances without a crew. The effort aims to address what officials describe as a persistent operational gap in undersea logistics and long-range autonomous operations.