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Maritime Operations

The STO maritime objective is to identify, develop and rapidly mature critical advanced technologies and system concepts for U.S. Naval forces' role in today's network centric warfare environment. STO Maritime projects will seek to capitalize on and improve the abilities of U.S. Naval forces to conduct simultaneous operations in the air, on the sea, and under the sea. STO Maritime programs are developing new capabilities that include concepts for expanding the envelope of operational naval capabilities such as friction drag reduction via super-cavitation on Navy surface vessels, logistically friendly distributed lighting systems, novel underwater propulsion modalities, and acoustic anti-submarine warfare systems. STO has also partnered with the U.S. Navy to pursue design options for a reduced-size and reduced cost submarine with full nominal capability, while simultaneously decreasing platform infrastructure and the cost of future design and production.