Alameda, California maritime autonomy company founded 2009; builds Surveyor, Voyager, and Spectre USVs with over 2.5 million nautical miles logged.
Saildrone is a maritime autonomous-systems company headquartered in Alameda, California, founded in 2009. It is privately held, backed by investors including BOND, XN, Standard Investments, Emerson Collective, Crowley Maritime, Lux Capital, and Social Capital, and operates a European headquarters in Copenhagen alongside production facilities in the Netherlands, Norway, and Poland.
The company builds wind- and solar-powered unmanned surface vehicles for defense, intelligence, and ocean-data missions. The Surveyor platform is built for persistent surface intelligence and deep-ocean mapping on long-duration missions; Voyager is a mid-size USV used for maritime domain awareness, counter-narcotics patrol, and coastal mapping; Explorer is a smaller platform for environmental and meteorological data collection; and Spectre, including a stealth variant with a low-profile hull and near-silent propulsion, is built for anti-submarine-warfare and strike missions. Saildrone has logged more than 2.5 million nautical miles and 65,000 days at sea over more than 12 years of operations.
Named customers and partners include the U.S. Navy's 4th Fleet, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, NOAA, and Meta, for which Saildrone surveyed subsea cable routes. The company holds ISO 9001 certification and a manufacturing partnership with Austal USA.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
7m wind-and-solar USV for up to 365-day ocean data collection.
10m USV for near-shore mapping and maritime security missions.
20m USV carrying multibeam sonar for deep-water bathymetry to 11000m.
Contact Saildrone
WEBSITE
https://www.saildrone.comPHONE
+1 510-748-1111HEADQUARTERS
United States
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