Using Uncrewed Surface Vehicles for Maritime Domain Awareness in the Arabian Gulf

In 2022 and 2023, Open Ocean Robotics (OOR) participated in two significant U.S. Navy exercises for uncrewed vehicles in the Arabian Gulf - Digital Horizons 2022 (DH22) and the International Maritime Exercise 2023 (IMX23). This demonstrated the capabilities of an OOR DataXplorer™ Uncrewed Surface Vehicle (USV) to continuously observe surrounding waters for the purpose of Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA). The importance of this type of work was highlighted by the creation of Task Force 59 within the U.S. Navy's $5^{\text{th}}$ Fleet in order to test existing commercial USV technologies, as well as Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles, to significantly expand use of such for MDA.