The Department of the Navy, Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research awarded Weather Gage Technologies LLC a $453,290 cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract to research methods for testing, evaluating, verifying and validating autonomous systems in support of the Magnetic and Acoustic Generation Next Unmanned Superconducting Sweep (MAGNUSS) program. Under the contract, Weather Gage Technologies will develop, fabricate, integrate and demonstrate an advanced minesweeping payload composed of a high-temperature superconducting magnetic source and acoustic generator. This payload will transition to the Naval Sea Systems Command for use on the Mine Countermeasure Unmanned Surface Vehicle as part of the MAGNUSS program's focus from Fiscal Year 2022 through 2024. Performance will take place in Edgewater, Maryland through January 2024.
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