We’re revitalizing American shipbuilding one platform at a time by fusing steel and technology to unlock safer, cheaper, and ubiquitous maritime operations.
At a worn-wood Irish bar, Austin Gray and Rylan Hamilton sat down for a beer and hashed out how to solve one of the Navy’s biggest problems: being out shipped by China. Rylan coming from robotics and Austin recently home from building drones in the Ukraine, arrived at unmanned surface vessels, and specifically medium-size vessels that can transit long distances independently. From there, Blue Water Autonomy was born.
Proven builders united by a mission to deliver naval technology.






Bringing decades of experience in shipbuilding, naval operations, autonomy, and innovation policy.
Scaling defense technologies from government and the private sector.





