Blue Water Autonomy
Autonomous warships for the open ocean, built to scale for the US Navy.
The product
Blue Water Autonomy designs and builds fully autonomous, unmanned naval surface vessels engineered for long-endurance, open-ocean missions. Their first platform is the Liberty Class, a 190-foot autonomous warship built from the keel up for unmanned operation, with a defense-first, dual-use design philosophy. The company pairs a clean-sheet ship design with modern autonomy software and is teamed with Conrad Shipyard in Morgan City, Louisiana, for serial production.
The thesis
The US Navy's surface fleet is shrinking just as China's is growing, and traditional shipyards cannot scale fast enough. Blue Water Autonomy reindustrializes American shipbuilding by combining a Jones Act-aligned domestic yard partner with autonomy that removes the cost and risk of crewed warships, enabling the Navy to field a much larger, attritable fleet of capable hulls. It is one of a small handful of US startups credibly contesting the unmanned naval surface vessel category at warship scale.
Evidence ledger
- website · 2026-04-29
Blue Water Autonomy identifies as a reindustrialization company.
https://www.blw.ai
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