Thales Subsidiary Wins $53.9 Million US Navy Contract for Remote Mine Hunting

Advanced Acoustic Concepts, a Thales subsidiary, has received a US$53.9 million contract for two Remote Mine Hunting modules plus engineering support from the US Navy, with options for additional modules that could raise the cumulative value to about US$196.2 million through 2033. The base contract was awarded on 5 August 2026 under number N00024-26-C-6304 and the award was reported on 2 November 2026.

The system pairs a towed multiview Synthetic Aperture Sonar, the SAMDIS 600, with AI-augmented Automatic Target Recognition that processes, classifies and maps sonar data as part of the Navy's find, fix and finish mine countermeasure approach. The award underlines the pattern that the largest value in modern naval procurement sits in the software layer that accelerates sensor data analysis, extending computer-vision-style automatic detection into the acoustic domain.