Commodore Rose added: 

"Navy Develop looks forward to continuing our close work with the University’s high calibre staff and student cohort and reaping the mutual benefits of this extended agreement. As the pace of change accelerates, our collaboration with the University of Plymouth is a valuable enabler for Navy Develop. 

“Having formally worked together since 2021, we have collectively achieved some notable successes in surface and sub-surface autonomy and as we both look to assess and embed a whole host of new emerging maritime technologies, I anticipate more success in the future.”

This has included cooperating around the development and deployment of a number of uncrewed vessels, and enhancing resilience against potential cyber security incidents.

As well as involving personnel from both parties, undergraduate and postgraduate students from the University have undertaken projects covering new sensors, data quality, marine autonomous platform capability, and data analytics.

These are all areas that the reaffirmed collaboration aims to build on, with the plans being to continue involves researchers, students and other personnel in a varied range of activities.

Discussions are also taking place around the development of future PhD opportunities, potentially looking at the use of AI to inform battlefield intelligence and enhanced decision-making for Navy personnel.