Topside Drone Keeps Vessels Ship-Shape

The "Topside Drone" is a development of a corrosion/anomaly detection sensor payload and processing scheme outfitted to a commercial-off-the-shelf unmanned aerial vehicle. Office of Naval Research Global (ONRG) TechSolutions and Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific developed the technology that will inspect and detect material defects, corrosion, warping and other conditions plaguing naval vessels.
ONRG TechSolutions allows Sailors and Marines to submit technology requests directly to the development community for rapid response prototyping.