Lithium-ion battery completes testing on SOCOM undersea vehicle
NewsApril 12, 2016
SAN DIEGO. The U.S. Navy completed on-hull demonstration testing on a Special Operations Command (SOCOM) undersea vehicle with General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems's (GA-EMS) Lithium-ion Fault Tolerant (LiFT) battery. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division integrated the LiFT battery into the undersea vehicle.
The test resulted in the Det Norske Veritas Germanischer Lloyd (DNV-GL) certification of the battery and over 60 hours of at-sea "underway under battery power" time with no failures, officials say.
The LiFT battery system offers single cell fault tolerance to prevent uncontrolled cascading failure, says Paul Clark, senior manager responsible for LiFT program at GA-EMS.
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