Helsing has announced plans to acquire Blue Ocean, a UK- and Australia-based specialist in autonomous underwater vehicles, to strengthen its Maritime Defence Programme, according to the company.<\/p>\n
The acquisition will integrate Blue Ocean\u2019s hardware and manufacturing expertise with Helsing\u2019s artificial intelligence systems. Helsing stated that combining the two firms will \u201caccelerate the development and mass production of autonomous platforms for the protection of the underwater battlespace,\u201d supporting efforts to build \u201csovereign capabilities across Europe and Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n
Amelia Gould, General Manager for Maritime at Helsing, said in the release: \u201cThe need for a smart autonomous mass-approach is clear, and together with Blue Ocean we can build an autonomous glider that provides a big leap forward to conduct underwater ISR for navies.\u201d She added that joining forces \u201cmakes sense\u201d as Helsing seeks to strengthen its maritime offering for European and AUKUS partners.<\/p>\n
Blue Ocean\u2019s Group Managing Director, Mike Deeks, said: \u201cSince first meeting Helsing we have forged a strong working relationship bringing together our Autonomous Underwater Vehicle technology with Helsing\u2019s impressive Edge AI processing to create a highly effective anti-submarine warfare and wide area surveillance capability.\u201d He described these capabilities as \u201ccritical to compilation of the modern common operating picture and providing border and asset protection.\u201d<\/p>\n
The acquisition follows Helsing\u2019s recent testing of its SG-1 Fathom autonomous underwater glider at the British Underwater Test and Evaluation Centre (BUTEC) in July, and its announcement of a \u00a3350 million investment in a new \u201cResilience Factory\u201d in Plymouth.<\/p>\n
The transaction will proceed through a members\u2019 scheme of arrangement under Australian law, subject to court, regulatory, and shareholder approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Helsing has announced plans to acquire Blue Ocean, a UK- and Australia-based specialist in autonomous underwater vehicles, to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-185627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}