Deployment
ASView / C-Worker at Bering Sea
L3Harris (NYSE: LHX), a legacy US defense prime, makes the ASView uncrewed-surface-vessel autonomy control system and the C-Worker class of autonomous surface vehicles, recorded in the maritime form factor with the entity scoped to the ASView system and C-Worker vessels rather than the broader L3Harris corporation, the same discipline applied to Kongsberg's HUGIN and Exail's DriX of recording the vehicle rather than the parent conglomerate. ASView has been in development since 2008 and deployed on more than 150 vessels, the C-Worker 4 and C-Worker 5 serve survey, defense, and offshore roles, and a 2023 teaming with BigBear.ai added AI capabilities. An entity-resolution correction is load-bearing: the premise that Wartsila acquired ASV Global is wrong, since ASV Global was acquired by L3 Technologies on September 20, 2018, becoming L3 ASV and then L3Harris after the 2019 L3-Harris merger, with no Wartsila acquisition of ASV Global, so the registry records it under L3Harris and not as ASV Global or Wartsila. The registry records it at commercial maturity as the legacy-prime new-defense surface entry that parallels Leidos, both US legacy defense contractors entering autonomous surface naval against new-defense entrants such as Anduril and Saronic. Its current customer roster and specific naval program assignments are not enumerated given limited legacy-prime defense disclosure, and the more-than-150-vessels figure is the ASView platform figure as vendor-stated.
ASView / C-Worker by L3Harris · Unverified
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ASV Global (now L3Harris) C-Worker 5 autonomous surface vessel deployed alongside TerraSond's crewed survey vessel Q105 for a 36-day hydrographic survey campaign in the Bering Sea, Alaska. The C-Worker 5 ran 2,275 nautical miles of parallel survey lines to the Q105, both vessels operating multi-beam sonars and simultaneously towing side-scan sonars. The USV was operated via the ASView control system from a control station aboard the Q105. The campaign is a landmark for autonomous marine survey: it followed a 2015 proof-of-concept in which an ASV platform became the first USV to update US nautical charts for NOAA.
Key facts
- Survey operator
- TerraSond (Alaska-based hydrographic survey)
- Campaign duration
- 36 days, August 2018
- Survey lines completed
- 2,275 nautical miles
- Sensors
- Multi-beam sonar + side-scan sonar (simultaneous)
- Control method
- ASView autonomous system from Q105 control station
Safety record
No incidents on record for ASView / C-Worker at Bering Sea.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
- Trust tier
- Unverified
- Last updated
- 2026-06-28
- Model
- ASView / C-Worker
- Company
- L3Harris
- Location
- Bering Sea
- Status
- operational
- First seen
- 2018-08-01
- ID
981f5759-fd08-4015-9b26-db90748d59c7
Sources (2)
- ASV Global and TerraSond Complete Unmanned Alaskan Hydrographic Survey · https://www.unmannedsystemstechnology.com/2018/08/asv-global-and-terrasond-complete-unmanned-alaskan-hydrographic-survey/ · 2018-08-01
- ASV Global, TerraSond Complete First Unmanned Hydrographic Survey · https://www.marinelink.com/news/hydrographic-terrasond414784
Methodology: Unreviewed · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-06-28
Verification posture
Unreviewed
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-06-28
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: commercial
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: maritime
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for ASView / C-Worker at Bering Sea.Common questions
- What is the ASView / C-Worker deployment at Bering Sea?
- ASView / C-Worker, built by L3Harris, is recorded as a deployment at Bering Sea on the DEPLOY registry. L3Harris operates the deployment directly.
- Who operates ASView / C-Worker at Bering Sea?
- L3Harris, the manufacturer of ASView / C-Worker, operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.
- When did the ASView / C-Worker deployment at Bering Sea go live?
- The deployment is recorded as starting August 1, 2018 on the DEPLOY registry. Earlier activity may exist but is not yet sourced.
- Have there been incidents at the ASView / C-Worker deployment at Bering Sea?
- No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.
- Is ASView / C-Worker at Bering Sea safe?
- ASView / C-Worker at Bering Sea has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.
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