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Co-Founder @BlueWaterShips | Building autonomous ships for democracy’s navies
Joined September 2011
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Earlier this summer, we raised $50M from Google Ventures for our Series A. This is a unique moment (for 🇺🇸) for two reasons:
1️⃣ This is the fist time U.S. shipbuilding as an industry has a new company, focused on building a ship product, with the capital and team to do so.
2️⃣ Google Ventures’ entry reminds us that, in the defense tech renaissance, much of democracy’s best talent and capital has remained on the sidelines. No longer.
We owe a ton of thanks to our existing investors - all of whom participated in the Series A - the rapidly growing Blue Water Team, and to our very understanding families.
We will work relentlessly.
Now check out this dope picture of our hardware on the salt water - more content coming soon.
We are proud to announce our Series A. @GVteam and @davemuni - with all Blue Water insiders joining - have led a $50M round that allows us to deliver for our customers and our country. 🇺🇸
We are not slowing down.
We have used the last year to hire the best robotics engineers in Boston, build a team of veteran shipbuilders, and open a third office in Washington D.C. We are testing on the salt water on ship-scale hardware. We are building capability to attack America's shipbuilding crisis at its core.
This round allows us to build our first full ship and keep pace with a Navy customer that demands speed. We will double down on our fully autonomous design, deepen relationships with our 50+ suppliers, and deliver mass-producible ships to the U.S. Navy and future customers.
Thanks to our incredible employees, their families, and to our investors. All of us know this is only an early chapter in the story of America's maritime industrial renaissance. Much work lies ahead. 🛠️
Damn the torpedoes.
@Sethwinterroth @smarcus @rylanhamilton @Turnip #shipbuilding
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Morgan Stanley maps out estimated hyperscaler and neocloud capex to supplier revenue for 2027.
Gives us a good snapshot of companies in the AI universe.
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I did my university research on aluminium, was editorial assistant for one of aluminium researchers in naval architecture & wrote the handbook for BP.
Aluminium is not a good material for ships. They will crack because the SN curve is a straight line down, only a question of when.
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1 in 3 soldiers Ukraine captures now are foreign nationals many from Africa, Arabia and Asia who are fighting for contracts in the Russian army, Putin has recently imported over 300,000 foreign nationals to occupied Ukraine.
Your based right wing leader for you...
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Insane footage of Operation Veles (god of the underworld) in Ukraine. Thousands of miles of pipes offered an underground world Ukraine is mastering/using to escaping the drone death zones to still maneuver/adapt. From underground guides, barricades for underground machine gun battles, tunnel vehicles for logistics/sped surrendering to the rear, toxic gas exposure, infiltration tactics. I've known members of the Khartiia Brigade for years, their innovations for training, robotics, now underground warfare, historic. @wolfejosh @SapperGeologist @traysartech @yadinsoffer @asherdigs youtube.com/watch?v=iGyuC3xH…
More proof that we shouldn’t build US Navy ships from aluminum:
“[T]he U.S. aluminum industry, the world’s leading supplier just 25 years ago, produces a mere 1% of global output today. Moreover, there are zero operating smelters in the United States—or in a NATO country—capable of producing the high-purity aluminum required for military applications; the only comparable sources—China, Russia, and the United Arab Emirates—are highly precarious.“
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“Create the change you desire through a discrete partnership with the CIA.”
I want the t-shirt.
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Absolutely insane footage of Ukrainian soldiers travelling around gas pipelines near Kupyansn on mini mining trains where heavy fighting has been taking place for days underground.
This is a wild argument - what planet.
The Pentagon has gone too far in using the Other Transaction Authority. Congress should act. breakingdefense.com/2026/10/…
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Global shipbuilding boom moves into overdrive
splash247.com/?p=249490 via @splash_247
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Churchill could have shortened WW2 by years if he had just “done a deal” with Hitler. George Washington could have done a deal to end the American Revolution. Zelenskyy is in good company.
The flipside is that if we had Jones Act without Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Alaska our fleet would be almost entirely a riverine fleet.
The mandate to connect OCONUS 🇺🇸 to CONUS makes the Jones Act fleet ocean-going
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Deterrence in the Indo-Pacific requires real, deployable lethality.
Watch my recap from Maritime Big Play Pacific DVDay on how #AUKUS is taking advanced autonomous capabilities from the lab straight to our operators.
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DIU unveils next phase in unmanned vessel competition breakingdefense.com/2026/10/…
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Meet the two people with us to the finish line of America at Sea.
@brentdsadler on the SHIPS for America Act and where it stands. @USAMaritimeX founder Clay Wirsing on what he saw from the shipyard floor.
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BREAKING: Ukraine has carried out the world’s first medical evacuation of a human via a drone from the battlefield the 30th mechanised brigade of Ukraine managed to save their injured comrade from a minefield.
Just absolutely insane.
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The U.S. military is deploying a sizeable autonomous maritime drone with a Navy carrier strike group to support and enhance a real-world conflict operation for the first time, according to the sea service’s acting Secretary Hung Cao.
He briefly confirmed the significant fleet integration during a panel with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other senior officials at the Army’s annual AUSA conference. youtube.com/shorts/fNQmaH1nO…
Read more by @BrandiVincent_: defensescoop.com/2026/10/16/…