Teledyne Brown Engineering has received approval from the US Navy for full-rate production (FRP) phase on the littoral battlespace sensing-glider (LBS-G) programme.

Under the $53.1m contract, the company will provide the US Navy with a total fleet of 150 marine gliders, if all options are exercised.

The 2m-long Slocum glider is a torpedo-shaped unmanned underwater vehicle that uses changes in buoyancy along with its wings and tail-fin steering to move through the water.

The underwater vehicles will be used by the navy to acquire critical oceanographic data to improve positioning of fleets during naval manoeuvres.

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The design and development phase of the contract was completed in August 2010, after which the low -rate production contract was awarded in the December.

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The Teledyne Team includes Teledyne Brown for system integration, Teledyne Webb Research for glider development and production, and the University of Washington – Applied Physics Lab for glider operations centre software.