DCMA inspects, accepts 300 Navy ASVs in first year of production
From left: Charlie Huffman, quality assurance team lead, Marco Magana and Eric Blackwell, both quality assurance specialists and all with the Defense Contract Management Agency’s South Red River contracting office stand in front of the Navy’s Corsair autonomous surface vessel at the defense contractor production facility in Austin, Aug. 27. In the first year of production, June 2025 until June of this year, the quality assurance teams who cover the facility inspected and accepted more than 300 vessels in support of the Navy and Department of War’s prioritization of production of autonomous surface vessels. (DCMA photo courtesy Charlie Huffman)