The future of a promising new undersea surveillance platform -- designed to blanket the ocean with small, unmanned acoustic nodes -- could hinge on the Navy's fiscal year 2026 budget request. ThayerMahan’s Outpost, an unmanned mobile acoustic surveillance system, has drawn support from the Office of the Secretary of Defense after the Navy opted not to fund the effort in its FY-25 request. The project, with support for OSD’s ORCAstrate initiative, is part of a broader push to field distributed,...
