LM to design US Navy’s XLUUV ‘Orca’

Lockheed Martin will support evolution of the US Navy’s family of unmanned undersea systems under a design phase contract valued at $43.2 million for Orca, the US Navy’s Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (XLUUV). XLUUV Orca is a two phase competition, including the currently awarded design phase and a competitive production phase for up to nine vehicles to meet increasing demands for undersea operational awareness and payload delivery. This long-range autonomous vehicle will perform a variety of missions, enabled by a reconfigurable payload bay with attributes including extended vehicle range, autonomy, and persistence.