{"id":145465,"date":"2022-09-02T03:24:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T08:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/no-manning-required-ship-nomars-program-to-build-test-demonstrate-first-ship"},"modified":"2022-09-02T03:24:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T08:24:20","slug":"no-manning-required-ship-nomars-program-to-build-test-demonstrate-first-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/no-manning-required-ship-nomars-program-to-build-test-demonstrate-first-ship","title":{"rendered":"No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) Program to Build, Test, Demonstrate First Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/no-manning-required-ship-nomars-program-to-build-test-demonstrate-first-ship.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NOMARS took a clean-sheet approach to ship design, holding firmly to the requirement that there will never be a human on board the vessel while it is at sea \u2013 including during underway replenishment (UNREP) events. By eliminating all constraints and requirements associated with humans, NOMARS opened up the design space to novel ship configurations and capabilities that could never be considered for crewed vessels.<\/p>\n<p>NOMARS is also pushing the boundaries on ship reliability. Because there is no crew on board to perform maintenance, NOMARS required new approaches for power generation, propulsion, machinery line-up and control schemes to ensure continuous functionality throughout a long mission in all weather, temperature and sea states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNOMARS plans to demonstrate a next-generation completely unmanned ship that will enable entirely new concepts of operations,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/staff\/dr-gregory-avicola\" alt=\"Link will open in a new window.\" target=\"whole\">Gregory Avicola<\/a>, program manager in DARPA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/about-us\/offices\/tto\" alt=\"Link will open in a new window.\" target=\"whole\">Tactical Technology Office<\/a>. \u201cWe will enable methods of deploying and maintaining very large fleets of unmanned surface vessels that can serve as partners, across the globe, for the larger crewed combatants of the U.S. Navy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOMARS took a clean-sheet approach to ship design, holding firmly to the requirement that there will never be a human on board the vessel while it is at sea \u2013 including during underway replenishment (UNREP) events. By eliminating all constraints and requirements associated with humans, NOMARS opened up the design space to novel ship configurations [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}