US Navy selects seven companies to test medium sized unmanned surface vessels

- US Navy picks 7 firms for Medium Unmanned Surface Vessels (MUSV). This isn’t just naval strategy; it’s a massive AI robotics deployment. Expect autonomous ships handling surveillance, comms, and logistics without crews. Companies like HII, Saronic, and Leidos are racing to prove their autonomous stacks work in contested waters. It’s the physical layer of AI automation scaling to sea. If they pass testing by Oct 2026, they get $15M and production contracts. We’re moving from concept to real-world ops. The future fleet is distributed, unmanned, and heavily automated. Robots on water, just like robots in factories.