Underwater security specialist DSIT Solutions is showcasing its new domain awareness sensing suite at this year’s Navy Leaders’ Combined Naval Event conference.
At CNE 2026 the firm is introducing its Underwater Domain Awareness (UDA) concept, which uses a mixture of overlapping sensors to detect and classify intruders at different ranges.
The full UDA suite includes a new sensor, BlueShield, a medium-range sonar specifically designed to secure ports, and naval bases from uncrewed underwater vessels (UUVs). The seabed-mounted sensor combines active and passive elements and is derived from DSIT’s BlackFish Hull-Mounted Sonar (HMS).
It combines in the UDA with other existing DSIT sensors such as AquaShield and PointShield, which offer high-resolution diver and UUV autodetection capabilities over shorter distances.
The other element is DSIT’s SeaShield, a fixed, low-frequency sonar system, which combines active and passive modes and enables automatic detection and tracking. As per a company statement: “Advanced acoustic sound processing techniques enable the detection of underwater contacts at very long ranges.”
Data from all these sensors is fed into a unified AI-enabled command-and-control (C2) centre which constructs an holistic view of the area under surveillance.
Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at DSIT Amir Alon commented: “The underwater domain is facing a rapidly increasing number of advanced uncrewed underwater threats.
“Our UDA solution gives a response to these growing challenges — delivering continuous, long-range,
layered detection that enables comprehensive underwater control.”
- You can read more details on the DSIT Solutions website