What an incredibly incompetent article (well, Newsmax is citing an incompetent article.)
SAIC’s ACTUV is an unmmaned autonomous SURFACE vessel, designed to trail submarines.
http://investors.saic.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=193857&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1757399
Also, it’s not going to be nuclear-powered. There’s zero chance the US will ever put an unmanned nuclear-powered vessel in the water (not even one powered by radioisotopes, rather than a reactor.)
Zero chance?
How many things have happened in the last few years that you would have said had zero chance of happening in America just ten years ago?