Secure Your Borders
Our maritime border is the front line of homeland security. Saildrone pushes the border out with cost-effective unmanned surface vehicles that detect and track threats for interception well before they reach our shores. Saildrone USVs seamlessly integrate with existing maritime security operations, delivering persistent surveillance to enable rapid response options from coastal waters to the high seas.
Benefits
Transforming Maritime Security Through Battle-tested Technology
Maritime domain awareness demands constant evolution. As transnational threats grow more sophisticated, Saildrone stands ready to augment America's maritime security forces with game-changing autonomous capability. Our proven unmanned surface vehicles multiply your reach, enhance your surveillance coverage, and strengthen your mission effectiveness.
Saildrone delivers exponential force multiplication with dramatic cost savings. We provide persistent maritime presence without burdening your force structure. Battle-tested through years of maritime security operations, our autonomous solutions detect, track, and classify contacts integrating seamlessly with existing capabilities to counter illegal activity at sea and protect territorial borders.
Deploy in Days, Not Years
Time is critical in maritime security. While traditional assets can take years to procure and deploy, Saildrone's turnkey solutions go from contract to operations in days. Rapidly scale your maritime presence when and where you need it most.
Move at the Speed of Threats
Static defenses create static vulnerabilities. Saildrone USVs can rapidly reposition across thousands of nautical miles, creating mobile maritime barriers that adapt to emerging threats and surge coverage where it matters most.
Perpetual Maritime Presence
Maintain persistent coverage without crew fatigue or weather limitations. Saildrone USVs conduct extended missions lasting months, not days, providing continuous surveillance across vast and challenging maritime domains.
Zero Manning Burden
For a daily rate, we handle everything—operators, analysts, maintenance, and logistics. You get 24/7 maritime domain awareness without impacting your existing force structure or adding training requirements.
Battle-tested Border Security
Skip the learning curve. From Caribbean drug interdiction to Pacific illegal fishing enforcement, Saildrone brings years of experience rapidly integrating into elite operational teams for immediate results on day one.
Your Mission, Your Payload
Complete payload flexibility means you define the mission. Our platforms integrate seamlessly with nearly any payload you require. You specify the capabilities—we'll have them underway within days.
RECENT MISSIONS
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HOW IT WORKS
Your Mission is in Good Hands
Mission Planning
Saildrone Mission Management collaborates closely with operators and principals to build, maintain, train, and equip a highly capable fleet. We identify strategic deployment zones and determine optimal routes while maintaining flexibility to dynamic mission objectives.
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 with zero manning burden. 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
Explore Saildrone's homeland security and border patrol applications to see how we support our clients in attaining their mission objectives.
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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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It’s clear that autonomous technology is a growing industry and has great potential to enhance Coast Guard operations. Combined with artificial intelligence algorithms, unmanned systems could be a game changer.”
Cmdr. Blair Sweigart
US Coast Guard Research and Development Center
