Anduril wants to build dozens of autonomous ships a year. So it’s teaming up with global shipbuilding titan HD Hyundai Heavy Industries to manufacture the type of autonomous ships the U.S. Navy wants for its hybrid fleet vision , Defense One has learned.

The first prototype, a dual-use autonomous surface vessel, will be built in Korea, but future vessels will be made in the U.S. at the former Foss Shipyard in Seattle, Wash., the company said. The Puget Sound facility “will serve as Anduril’s initial U.S. hub for low-rate vessel assembly, integration, and testing of ASVs for the MASC program,” Anduril said in a news release announcing the partnership.

But the goal is to have infrastructure in place to compete for the Navy’s Modular Attack Surface Craft , or MASC program, which is a

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