Keyport is home to Navy's first unmanned undersea vehicle squadron

Kitsap Sun ^ | July 3, 2018 | Julianne Stanford

[RitchieAprile]

For the past 100 years, Keyport has been home to one of Navy's primary efforts to research, develop and test torpedoes, which earned the small, waterfront community the moniker of "Torpedo Town, U.S.A." Now, Keyport's Naval Undersea Warfare Center is becoming the modern testing ground for a new type of technology that silently operates in the depths — unmanned undersea vehicles, which are known as UUVs. Those unmanned undersea vehicles are essentially "pre-programmed, small submarines," said Cmdr. Scott Smith, commanding officer of the Navy's newly formed Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Squadron 1. The squadron's UUVs range from 10-inch torpedo-shaped tubes to large submersibles more than 80 inches in diameter. Many of the UUVs used at Keyport are commercially available, from companies like Bluefin Robotics or Riptide Autonomous Solutions.

[Menehune56]

Very odd that the story doen’t mention where the Keyport is located. Washington State, near Seattle.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Bremerton area, would be my guess. In Kitsap County.

[jmacusa]

Funny. There is a Keyport, NJ, it’s just below Sandy Hook.