U.S. Navy skips competition on TETRA II to avoid a year of delay

The US Navy has awarded Oceaneering International a sole-source task order worth up to $38.2 million to continue development and prototype production of TETRA II. The system launches and recovers an unmanned underwater vehicle through a standard submarine torpedo tube, supporting payload integration without a separate external handling arrangement. The September 2 order covers design studies, hardware and software changes, certification, shipboard installation, training, logistics and cybersecurity work under the Navy's UUV Family of Systems contract. The service justified retaining Oceaneering through proprietary hardware and approved design elements, saying a contractor change would delay the planned deployment by a year.