Kongsberg Discovery won a contract from an undisclosed international customer to protect offshore platforms, subsea cables, pipelines, ports and energy grids, fusing active and passive sonar, cameras and its C-Scope command software, the company said on 3 July1. Kongsberg did not disclose the value.
Kongsberg Discovery is the subsea-sensing arm of Norway's Kongsberg group. C-Scope classifies underwater threats and can cue robots to inspect once an alert triggers; the company positions its HUGIN AUV (autonomous underwater vehicle), rated to 2,200km range and 6,000m depth, for long-duration patrol of cables and pipelines2. The saleable core is the C-Scope fusion layer that decides when to send a robot, where the margin and the customer lock-in sit, more than the HUGIN hull itself.
Camilla Kiss, president of Kongsberg Discovery, framed the infrastructure-protection market as moving from recognising the need to implementing solutions; chief executive Eirik Lie tied the deal to protecting people and critical infrastructure3. The refusal to name the buyer reads pointedly against the Baltic and North Sea cable-sabotage backdrop. The same seabed demand drives Kongsberg's AUKUS Pillar II bid with the Italian firm DRASS and NATO's uncrewed surveillance task force in the Greenland-Iceland-UK (GIUK) gap; this week it took a paying commercial form, even as the liability framework for maritime autonomous systems stays unsettled.
