Navy's new minehunting system experienced major testing issues

By Audrey Decker / March 10, 2022 at 1:03 PM
The Navy failed to collect "substantial" amounts of performance data from the Unmanned Influence Sweep System, part of the service's mine countermeasure technologies, due to testing issues. The UISS and the Littoral Combat Ship’s launch and recovery systems experienced testing problems that caused system unavailability and degraded mission performance, according to the “ controlled unclassified information ” version of the Pentagon director of operational test and evaluation's annual report. The DOT&E report, excluding the CUI material, was released in January...

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