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Ultra Maritime Welcomes David Adams to Lead Unmanned and Rapid Capability Fielding Solutions

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CHANTILLY, Virginia – The undersea threat is advancing at an ever-greater pace, with quieter, stealthier, faster and more numerous threats constantly being developed. The need for innovative ways to address these threats is more important than ever, and Ultra Maritime has continued to lead the industry by investing in novel products, modernized facilities and world-leading expertise.

Ultra Maritime is pleased to announce the hire of retired Navy Captain David Adams as our newly established Vice President of Unmanned and Rapid Capability Fielding Solutions. His addition reflects Ultra Maritime’s steadfast commitments and investments to quickly meet escalating security threats head on. Adams will lead the effort to bring state-of-the-art unmanned anti-submarine warfare (ASW) solutions such as Sea Spear and Sea Tracker to the U.S. Navy and its global allied partners.

Throughout his military and civilian career, Adams led teams in the development of non-traditional sea denial warfighting concepts while overseeing highly successful global war games that were instrumental in accelerating technical solutions and informing successful rapid unmanned systems acquisitions. He also served on the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Strategic Studies Group, was Speechwriter for the CNO, and Director, Commander’s Initiatives Group, U.S. Seventh Fleet.

He is an award-winning defense and national security writer. His series of impactful articles led to his selection for the U.S. Navy League’s Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for literary achievement. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, the Naval Postgraduate School and the Royal Navy’s world-renowned “Perisher” Submarine Command Course. He currently serves as a contributing editor for the U.S. Naval Institute and on the board of the Navy Museum Development Foundation.

Ultra Maritime Showcases Next-Generation Unmanned Anti-Submarine Warfare Capabilities at the Surface Navy Association’s 2026 National Symposium

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Ultra Maritime is showcasing a wide range of unique and next generation anti-submarine warfare capabilities for attendees at this week’s Surface Navy Association’s 2026 National Symposium in Arlington, Virginia.

Portfolio highlights will include the following:

Family of Scalable Radar Solutions
The Next Generation Surface Search Radar (NGSSR) is the Navy’s first multi-mission navigation radar that enhances warfighting capabilities and safety of navigation. This radar can be reconfigured through software updates and is designed to support combat systems, surface search, safety of navigation and periscope detection. Based on this fleet fielded capability, Ultra Maritime offers solutions as small as 18 inches in diameter to fit within the constraints of small spaces on unmanned platforms, providing reliable and proven options for autonomous navigation in highly contested environments.

Sea Tracker
Ultra Maritime’s Sea Tracker is a self-contained towed array in a 20ft ISO container providing modular capability with ASW or torpedo defense capability on both manned and unmanned surface ships. Sea Tracker’s scalable architecture enables the seamless integration of Ultra Maritime’s family of towed sonar technologies, including torpedo defense systems, inline active/passive, and strategic surveillance arrays. This system-of-systems capability enables a rapidly deployable containerized asset, allowing navies the ability to classify, track and prosecute the stealthiest submarines in all areas of operation.

Surface Ship Torpedo Defense
Ultra Maritime has made significant investment towards creating a complete Layered Torpedo Defense solution comprised of multiple strategies and systems working together to detect and neutralize incoming torpedo threats. This next generation torpedo defense capability combines expendable countermeasures, both soft and hard kill, with towed detection to ensure the safety of naval vessels from torpedo attacks. This integrated approach to torpedo defense is critical to address the growing submarine threat by significantly improving our survivability and drastically shortening the kill chain for an inbound threat.

Next Generation Countermeasures
The rapid evolution of adversary torpedo technology is redefining the undersea battlespace and placing unpresented pressure on today’s naval forces. Modern torpedoes are smarter, stealthier and more lethal with advanced acoustic processing to outmaneuver decoys. Ultra Maritime’s next generation ADC MK6 is built for rapid deployment and speed, with mission-ready performance, improved acoustic output and robust compatibility that provides a trusted layer of underwater defense in high-threat environments, built upon Ultra Maritime’s world-leading expendable countermeasure technology from the ADC MK2, ADC MK3 and ADC MK4.