The Italian shipbuilding group Fincantieri has signed a Strategic agreement to accelerate the development of the units surface of Defcomm, a startup specializing in Unmanned solutions for the maritime sector. The agreement focuses on in a co-investment agreement to accelerate the development and the industrialization of surface drones designed by the Roman Defcomm who have already passed long run tests and Endurance. These are drones designed for surveillance, intelligence and patrolling with a high flexibility of use, being able to operate in fully autonomous, remote-controlled and manually controlled, as well as with a high performance in terms of speed.

Fincantieri has specified that this agreement will allow it to also to develop and integrate on its naval units deployment capacity of autonomous surface vehicles, both for domestic and international customers. The collaboration between Fincantieri and Defcomm will also support the next exercise activities during which the following will be advanced capabilities of the platforms and their interoperability in complex scenarios.