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Kongsberg Maritime

[Kongsberg Maritime](https://www.kongsberg.com/maritime/) is a Norwegian subsea technology company and subsidiary of Kongsberg Gruppen (OSE: KOG), developing…

Track Kongsberg Maritime
HQ
Kongsberg, Norway
Status
active

CategoryMaritime

Models

3

Deployments

2

Overview

Kongsberg Maritime is a Norwegian subsea technology company and subsidiary of Kongsberg Gruppen (OSE: KOG), developing autonomous underwater vehicles (HUGIN AUV), underwater drones, and maritime automation systems. The Norwegian Armed Forces procured HUGIN AUVs for NOK 155M.

Verified record

Verified deployments
2 deployments on file
Active incidents
None on file

Key facts

Focus

Norwegian marine technology

Robot

Autonomous underwater vehicles

Technology

Sonar, navigation, and offshore systems

Parent

Kongsberg Gruppen (OSE: KOG)

Key product

HUGIN autonomous underwater vehicle

Norwegian Armed Forces contract

NOK 155M (HUGIN AUVs)

Data & sources

Web sources

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Models (3)

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Previous platform

Kongsberg HUGIN

Autonomous underwater vehicle for seabed mapping and surveying. 6000m depth rating.

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Current platform

Autonomous Vessel System

Autonomous vessel control and monitoring system. Remote and autonomous ship operations including navigation, machinery control, and situational awareness.

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Current platform

HUGIN

HUGIN is Kongsberg's family of free-swimming autonomous underwater vehicles, and the registry entity is scoped to the HUGIN AUV rather than Kongsberg, the large Norwegian sensor and systems conglomerate that makes it. HUGIN passes the AI-as-primary test despite its corporate parentage because it is a genuine autonomous undersea vehicle with in-mission onboard processing, including autonomous pipe-tracking, terrain-relative navigation, and automated target recognition, not a sensor package; the HUGIN Superior variant is rated to full ocean depth with more than 70 hours of endurance and navigation accuracy better than 0.04 percent of distance travelled. The registry records it at production maturity: twelve navies operate HUGIN for mine countermeasures, intelligence preparation of the operational environment, seabed warfare, and survey, it passed US Navy acceptance tests in early 2025, and Kongsberg began HUGIN production in the United States in 2025. Its autonomy is strong at the vehicle level, with onboard autonomy, automated target recognition, and terrain-relative navigation, and the sensor-package and legacy risk applies to the parent corporation rather than to HUGIN, a distinction the entity scoping resolves by recording the HUGIN AUV rather than Kongsberg itself. The twelve-navies figure is vendor-stated and the exact fielded count and per-customer details are not independently audited.

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Relationships

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Current leadership (1)

Safety record

No incidents on record for Kongsberg Maritime.

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Operated deployments (2)

Operator customers (1)

Recent coverage

Kongsberg Maritime in third-party press

Kongsberg Maritime to acquire Sweden’s Berg Propulsion

Jul 13, 2026

Kongsberg Maritime, BCIT Invest in Future Marine Innovation Simulation Centre of Excellence

Jul 8, 2026

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