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Advocates for new unmanned autonomous commercial boats haven't had too much to be excited about recently. "There was a whole bunch of interest and then it backed off," said Bob Clark MetalCraft Marine's contract manager in Watertown, N.Y. Whereas the tempo is more intense for autonomous Navy vessels. The most noteworthy example is the Navy's $122 million contract awarded to Bollinger Shipyards, Lock-port, La. The contract is to initially build three to six mine countermeasures unmanned surface vehicles with options for another 24. It won't be an entirely new venture for the Navy, which started using unmanned vehicles at the end of World War Ⅱ. |