U.S. Navy and Quad partners expand AI tracking of dark fleets in the Pacific NIWC Pacific has awarded Vantor a contract to provide Maritime Sentry for Indo-Pacific maritime domain awareness. The system fuses satellite imagery, SAR, AIS data, and AI-based vessel fingerprinting to detect and track ships that disable, spoof, or never transmit identification signals. The effort will support U.S.

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