Safeguard Undersea Infrastructure
Critical undersea infrastructure (CUI), including fiber optic cables, power transmission cables, and pipelines, is vital for public safety, commerce, and national security. But these assets are increasingly vulnerable to damage and under threat of sabotage. Anticipate environmental threats and detect and deter hostile activities to critical underwater infrastructure with Saildrone USVs.
Benefits
Maintain Subsea Assets with Autonomous Technology
Maintaining critical undersea infrastructure comes with unique challenges. Saildrone reduces the operational cost, complexity, and risk of persistent surveillance and deterrence across vast operational areas.
Perpetual Maritime Presence
Maintain persistent coverage without crew fatigue or weather limitations. Saildrone continuously collects data for months, not days, providing persistent surveillance across vast and challenging maritime domains.
Smarter Intel in Real Time
Gain unmatched access to near real-time ocean data, enabling superior decision advantage. Saildrone has developed the world’s largest maritime data set, driving the creation of industry-leading AI/ML models for vessel detection and classification.
Modular Payload Integration
Forged through years of successfully integrating advanced scientific payloads, Saildrone's modular payload integrations rigorously adhere to the very highest standards for defense and national security-specific applications.
No HSE Risk
Saildrone’s autonomous, uncrewed systems deploy from and return to the safety of a protected harbor, without ever needing humans deployed at sea.
Reliability at Sea
Saildrone's tested capability in the harshest domains, redundancy in control systems, and robust data links guarantee maritime dependability and secure command and control.
Low Carbon
Saildrone USVs leverage wind and solar power to augment their diesel-electric drivetrain, delivering long-endurance missions with an exceptionally low carbon footprint.
RECENT MISSIONS
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HOW IT WORKS
Your Mission is in Good Hands
Mission Planning
Saildrone Mission Management collaborates closely with customers to build a mission that achieves customer objectives. Our team of experienced sailors and operators understands the ever-changing nature of the maritime environment and dynamically updates our operational posture to meet new demands.
Mission Execution
Saildrone provides end-to-end mission management, including logistics, vehicle deployment and recovery, and operations execution. Saildrone USVs remain on mission for months at a time. Saildrone’s Ocean API provides seamless access to real-time data, integrating directly into many common operating pictures (COP) and analytical platforms to enhance situational awareness. Through the Saildrone Mission Portal, users can save custom vessel filters and receive real-time alerts when vessels meet their criteria. The web application also features a live “chat” function, allowing users to update tasking or send mission-related inquiries, supported by our 24/7 on-watch personnel.
Post Mission
Upon successful completion of a mission, Saildrone assumes full responsibility for the logistics and operational aspects of fleet recovery and data delivery.
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Client Stories
Saildrone is proud to have partnered with leading organizations to improve maritime security.
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About 18 months ago, the flows through the Caribbean and the Florida Straits and Windward Pass were significant. That is not true today. We have moved assets, we’re very visibly present, and we’ve got unmanned systems, Saildrone, under contract. That, and policy clarity, has helped decrease the numbers that we are encountering at sea.”
Adm. Linda Fagan
Commandant, US Coast Guard
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NOAA is supporting the development of [the Saildrone Surveyor] because we are confident it will expand the capability of our existing fleet of ships to help us accelerate in a cost-effective way our mission to map, characterize, and explore our nation's deep ocean territory, monitor valuable fisheries and other marine resources, and provide information to unleash the potential of our nation's Blue Economy.”
Alan Leonardi
NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research director
