BlackSea Technologies—people I’ve met recently at SOF Week 2025 and have the utmost respect for—just stepped up to the Navy’s plate with a family of Modular Attack Surface Craft (MASC) unmanned surface vessels built to answer Solicitation N00024-25-R6314. This isn’t some commercial hull with military paint; it’s a purpose-designed 66-foot aluminum catamaran meant to accelerate a transition to a distributed, survivable fleet.

I’d love to be able to show you more pictures of it in this story, but there just aren’t any additional available.

The Solicitation and the Solution

In July 2025, the Navy asked the maritime industry for a modular surface combatant craft that can swap containerized payloads to perform tasks from anti-surface warfare and strike to electronic warfare, mine counterme

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