"Echo Voyager is a new approach to how unmanned undersea vehicles will operate and be used in the future," Boeing Phantom Works President Darryl Davis said in the statement on Thursday.
The new vehicle is capable of collecting undersea data and rising to the surface to report the information back to its users in a real-time environment, according to Boeing.
Echo Voyager eliminates the need and cost of surface ships and crews needed to oversee current unmanned undersea vehicles' day-to-day operations, it added.
Davis noted that Boeing’s investments in innovative technologies such as autonomous systems are "helping our customers affordably meet mission requirements now and in the years to come."
Starting this summer, Boeing says it plans to test the Echo Voyager off the coast of California.
