• Leidos disclosed new operational results for its maritime autonomy software, LAVA, in U.S. Navy exercises announced Sept. 8, 2026.
• Sea Hunter ran autonomously more than 2,000 nautical miles from Pearl Harbor to San Diego, supporting surveillance at RIMPAC 2026.
• Seahawk operated with the USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, described as the first MUSV to deploy operationally with a carrier strike group.
• Demonstrations included COLREGs-compliant collision avoidance, communications failover, remote control, Keep Out Zone avoidance, GPS-denied navigation.
• Leidos reported more than 200,000 autonomous nautical miles, 14,000 operating hours, supporting a push from trials into fleet operations.

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