WASHINGTON — The Navy has tapped Gecko Robotics for a five-year Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to employ the Pennsylvania-based company’s hull-scaling robots and artificial intelligence to detect potential repairs for vessels like destroyers.
Initially, Gecko will begin working on 18 ships in the US Pacific Fleet over the next nine months as part of the contract, with its robots inspecting destroyers, amphibious warships and littoral combat ships, the company’s CEO Jake Loosararian told Breaking Defense. The contract has a ceiling of up to $71 million over the five years.
The effort is in lockstep with the Navy’s broader initiative to improve combat surge readiness across the fleet to roughly 80 percent by 2027, according to Gecko….
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