Austin E Gray

We are proud to announce our Series A. @GVteam and @davemuni - with all Blue Water insiders joining - have led a $50M round that allows us to deliver for our customers and our country. 🇺🇸 We are not slowing down. We have used the last year to hire the best robotics engineers in Boston, build a team of veteran shipbuilders, and open a third office in Washington D.C. We are testing on the salt water on ship-scale hardware. We are building capability to attack America's shipbuilding crisis at its core. This round allows us to build our first full ship and keep pace with a Navy customer that demands speed. We will double down on our fully autonomous design, deepen relationships with our 50+ suppliers, and deliver mass-producible ships to the U.S. Navy and future customers. Thanks to our incredible employees, their families, and to our investors. All of us know this is only an early chapter in the story of America's maritime industrial renaissance. Much work lies ahead. 🛠️ Damn the torpedoes. @Sethwinterroth @smarcus @rylanhamilton @Turnip #shipbuilding

Frames set. Deckhead on. Pipe going in. Here’s the latest look inside Liberty’s hull at Conrad Shipyard, where she’s coming together frame by frame. What this hull is being built to do: > Stay at sea for 2–3 months at a time, with no crew onboard > Cross the Pacific on her own, with 10,700 nm of range > Ride out Sea State 7 > Carry six 40-ft or twelve 20-ft containers. Containerized payloads mean a new mission is a new container, not a new ship 220 ft. Up to 27 knots. Designed unmanned from the keel up. See how Liberty works: blw.ai/technology

Don't hit anything. It's the first rule every mariner learns, and Atlantic Endurance goes to sea five days a week to practice it. Here's a look inside how she does it. She's an 82-ft offshore service vessel. We took the passenger seats out, put the autonomy stack in, and wired it directly to her jet drives. She is the first Subchapter L vessel approved by the U.S. Coast Guard for autonomous testing. How she sees and decides: Cameras, radar and inertial navigation feed one operating picture. All processing happens onboard, distributed across the ship. For every contact, the system detects it, estimates where it's headed, and decides how to maneuver under COLREGs, the same rules of the road every other vessel on the bay follows. Detect. Estimate. Decide. Every day on the water builds confidence in the systems that will go aboard Liberty, our 220-ft autonomous ship for the open ocean. Proven on Atlantic Endurance. Built into Liberty from the keel up. Take the tour with our engineers, Spencer and Clay.