Pennsylvania Company To Boost Combat Readiness With AI-Powered Robots

The US Navy has awarded Gecko Robotics a five-year Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract worth up to $71 million to employ the company’s hull-scaling robots and artificial intelligence to detect potential repairs for vessels like destroyers. Initially, Gecko will work on 18 ships in the US Pacific Fleet over the next nine months. The effort is part of the Navy’s broader initiative to improve combat surge readiness across the fleet to roughly 80 percent by 2027. According to Gecko, its technology detects repairs up to 50 times faster than traditional efforts, which could help address delays in maintenance and modernization availability. The contract was first reported by Breaking Defense.