Special Operations Command looking for next-gen underwater navigation instruments

Underwater navigation experts at U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., are reaching out to industry to find companies able to design a next-generation Doppler velocity log (DVL) navigation instrument for manned and unmanned submarines.

The underwater navigational instrument should be a drop-in replacement of the Broadband DVL-1553 installed in the current generation of Navy underwater vehicles, SOCOM officials say.

SOCOM this week issued a sources-sought notice (Replacement_Doppler_Velocity_Log) to acquire drop-in replacement Doppler velocity log (DVL) with MIL-STD-1553B-2013 using the latest technology.

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