An underwater long-haul truck? A look at Anduril’s Dive-XL

I'm Andrew Nuss. I'm the head of growth and strategy for Andrel's Maritime Division

And I'm standing in front of a model of our Dive XL, which is our extra large autonomous undersea vehicle

This is a capability that we've been developing for the last few years

And it started as a partnership opportunity with the Royal Australian Navy as part of their GoShark program

So this vehicle that you see in front of you is the base product or the base vehicle that's part of that GoShark program

GoShark program. That GoShark program is a three-year collaborative research and development

program with the Australian Navy to realize the capability of an extra-large autonomous

undersea vehicle and then all of the missions and capabilities that come along with these vehicles

So that's integration into the command and control environment, autonomy, and really where

this kind of vehicle matters is the ability to carry large payloads or large amounts of payload

So these are long range vehicles that are payload trucks. These are systems that are designed to carry multiple different types of payloads and help address operational challenges and missions for the GoShark example for the Australian Navy, but then also here in the U.S. with the Defense Innovation Units and the U.S. Navy

So this is a base capability that we've been developing for the last few years

We have several of these that are built right now in Australia. And with partnership of the Australian Navy

we have moved into high-rate production with these systems. So we are actively producing these in a factory

that we have in Australia right now Similarly we partnered with the US Navy and the Defense Innovation Unit on a program called CAMP This is the Combat Autonomous Maritime Platform

This is a program where DIU went out to industry specifically looking for commercially available

long range, payload capable vehicles. And that's where the DiveXL as a base platform

is the capability to help address this need. So we announced back in March that we're on contract

with the Defense Innovation Unit for this capability. That will allow Andrel to demonstrate this vehicle for the U.S. Navy and for DIU in the next few months and do it in a manner that's operationally relevant

So we're going to integrate with sailors, some of the operational squadrons and demonstrate real mission capability with this platform to be able to show the maturity of the system

And then similarly, in partnership with the U.S. Navy, hopefully move into high rate production here by the end of the calendar year

This, again, is a payload truck, so we can integrate payloads that Andrel designs and operates, as well as payloads that our Navy partners or commercial partners design and operates, as well as many other third-party providers

So we're really excited about this capability. This is the first chance that the U.S. Navy's had in a long time to really operationalize

large numbers of these systems and help go solve some of these kind of dull, boring, and

kind of benign missions to be able to preserve the capital assets that we have that are very

exquisite and very capable. Go allow them to do those high-end missions and allow these systems to kind of help fill

out some of those lower-end missions and operate as a combined force