Image of Textron Systems’ Common Unmanned Surface Vehicle (CUSV) which is often integrated with the company’s Mine Sweep Payload Delivery System (MSPDS) for countermeasure tasks below the surface. Credit: Textron Systems.

US Naval Sea Systems Command has called on Textron Systems, an all-domain security systems manufacturer, to produce Mine Sweep Payload Delivery Systems (MSPDS) for US Navy mine countermeasure (MCM) operations.

The company designed these mine sweep payloads to locate and detonate acoustic and magnetic influence mines. In August 2024, Nato estimated that more than 60 countries possess sea mines and more than 30 countries produce them.

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Textron’s MSPDS reached initial operating capability in 2022. As of October 2023, the supplier has delivered two pilot systems and four low-rate production crafts and payloads. The Navy use these existing units to support its Littoral Combat Ship operations.

The company will undertake the work at various locations across the US, more than half of which will occur at its Cockeysville, Maryland facility. The service will induct an undisclosed number of these systems by October 2025. Although, if all options are exercised, work will continue for another four years through to 2029.

According to a Defense Department release of the contract details on 15 October 2024, the order was competitively procured under the Navy’s Unmanned Surface Vehicle Family of Systems Multiple Award Contract agreement. Specifically, the order is valued at more than $18m, which may bring the cumulative value to $106m if all options are exercised.

Typically, users will integrate the MSPDS module onto Textron’s Nato-compliant, multi-mission Common Unmanned Surface Vehicle (CUSV).

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With the appropriate payload, the CUSV conducts a range of tasks besides MCM, including Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance; surface and expeditionary warfare.

The CUSV has an endurance time of more than 20 hours, a towing capacity of around 2 tonnes at 20 knots and it can use any data link.