As adversary investments in maritime systems accelerate and the demand for distributed, survivable forces grows, Maritime Technologies is purpose-built to give the U.S. and allied warfighters the tools to outpace the threat. It brings together a suite of prototype, fielded, and field-ready systems under a single mission: deliver innovation on the high seas, at the speed of relevance.

“Along with our compelling portfolio in space, spectrum, and cyber, the maritime domain is where the next decade of strategic competition will be decided,” said Dr. Phil Root, chief technology officer of GRVTY and head of Maritime Technologies. “Maritime Technologies is our answer: a focused, mission-driven team that puts autonomy, range, precision navigation, and scale directly in the hands of the operators who need them most.”

Source: GRVTY

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“The proven operational performance of our 35-centimeter Gen-3 satellites is driving long-term commitments from major government customers that require mission critical intelligence from an industry-leading space-based intelligence platform,” said Brian O’Toole, BlackSky CEO. “With four Gen-3 satellites on orbit, BlackSky is now rapidly deploying Gen-3 capacity and driving up backlog and annual recurring revenue from our high margin space-based intelligence and AI services business.”

The agreement will leverage BlackSky’s Spectra capabilities and the Gen-3 constellation in support of the customer’s strategic and tactical maritime domain awareness mission applications. This customer has quickly incorporated capacity from BlackSky’s most recent Gen-3 satellite, which rapidly commissioned in less than a week following launch last month. With four Gen-3 satellites now on orbit, BlackSky has opened general availability to its global customer base.

“This Early Access Gen-3 On-Demand customer transitioned to a new, multi-year Assured contract after validating BlackSky’s ability to provide committed capacity over their region of interest with reliable, low-latency mission-critical imagery and analytics,” O’Toole said. “Through this partnership, BlackSky continues to successfully execute our land-and-expand strategy and is committed to providing our customers unparalleled strategic and tactical situational awareness at industry-leading speed, scale and economics.”

Assured services enable guaranteed access and priority tasking capacity through BlackSky’s proprietary, dynamic monitoring constellation over the customer’s national and regional areas of interest. Assured is also the first commercially available imagery and analytics tasking service to offer guaranteed collection commitments. With the improved image clarity of Gen-3, BlackSky’s proprietary AI algorithms automate identification and classification of an expanded set of vehicles, aircraft, vessels and other objects of tactical relevance at machine speed.

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Maritime domain awareness (MDA) has long been constrained by fragmented sensors and siloed workflows. Detection happens in one system, identity verification and behavioral analysis in another, forcing analysts to manually connect signals across AIS, RF, SAR, and electro-optical imagery. This fragmentation breaks custody—especially for vessels that intentionally go dark.

This partnership eliminates that gap by integrating Sentry directly into Windward’s platform, connecting vessel detection, identity, and behavior into a single, continuous intelligence loop. The result is a persistent, automated intelligence layer that transforms MDA from reactive analysis into a continuous, decision-ready system.

“From the Indo-Pacific to the Arctic, maritime activity is becoming more contested and complex, and adversaries are exploiting the seams between sensors, disabling AIS and masking identity faster than traditional workflows can keep pace,” said Peter Wilczynski, chief product officer at Vantor. “Windward has built a powerful intelligence layer that unifies maritime signals, and with Sentry, we’re adding the orchestration and identity layer that closes that gap to create an end-to-end monitoring system that delivers automated, persistent intelligence at the pace of real-world activity.”

Sentry, Vantor’s automated persistent monitoring system, drives automated multi-sensor tasking of Vantor’s high-resolution electro-optical (EO) imaging constellation and third-party synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors for broad-area search, enabling seamless SAR-to-EO tip-and-cue workflows without manual intervention. This moves operators from detection to confirmation in a single continuous process.

This system feeds vessel detections to Sentry’s AI-powered fingerprinting capability, which generates a canonical identity for each vessel based on imagery-derived characteristics to maintain custody across sensors, time, and geography—even when vessels disable AIS or never transmit at all. These fingerprints are fused with Windward’s intelligence stack, including AIS and RF data, creating a unified operational picture across detection, identity, and behavior at global scale.

Beyond vessel tracking, the integration extends persistent monitoring from sea to port infrastructure. Sentry continuously analyzes port activity using Vantor’s 20-plus-year historical satellite imagery archive to establish patterns of life, assess capacity, and track turnaround dynamics over time. This creates a continuous intelligence layer that integrates directly with Windward’s Early Detection capability, enabling operators to both detect and explain anomalies—not just flag them.

“This is a significant step forward in our mission to deliver the most comprehensive, decision-ready maritime intelligence available,” said Ami Daniel, CEO and co-founder of Windward. “Dark activity has been one of the hardest problems in maritime domain awareness, no single source of intelligence is sufficient to track vessel activity. By integrating Vantor’s Sentry system, we are closing the loop between detection and identity, enabling our customers to produce high-confidence intelligence on vessels of interest continuously, even when they go dark.”

The Vantor integration further strengthens Windward’s multi-source intelligence architecture, complementing AIS, SAR, EO, RF, and proprietary AI models with a persistent, space-based orchestration layer. Together, the partners are delivering a fully fused operational picture that enables defense agencies, law enforcement, and commercial operators to anticipate threats, enforce sovereignty, and act with confidence across the maritime domain.

Source: Vantor

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The partnership will support standardized workflows, democratized access to product data from the component level to the vehicle level, accelerated vehicle post-mission analysis, and improved traceability and trend analysis of historical data across all stages of vehicle assembly and testing.

REMUS vehicles are the world’s leading UUVs and are trusted by more than 30 navies worldwide, including 14 NATO members, for missions such as mine countermeasures, undersea survey, intelligence collection, and environmental sensing. Paired with HII’s proven REMUS UUVs, the ROMULUS USV significantly extends undersea reach by closing anti-submarine warfare sensing gaps and keeping manned platforms at a safer standoff distance. Together, ROMULUS and REMUS deliver a scalable, dual-domain solution across surface and subsurface missions that integrates with manned platforms to enable a hybrid fleet capability.

The Nominal-supported data project is one of several improvements HII is implementing across the REMUS and ROMULUS manufacturing pipeline to augment vehicle production and overall manufacturing capacity.

“The REMUS UUV is a proven, globally deployed platform, and our partnership with Nominal strengthens how we scale and evolve it while accelerating the development of the ROMULUS USV family,” said Eric Chewning, executive vice president of maritime systems and corporate strategy at HII. “By standardizing how we collect and analyze test data, we are shortening feedback loops, improving traceability, and moving faster from testing to delivery — advancing maritime autonomy at a time when it is critical to the security of the U.S. and our allies.”

“Autonomy programs move at the speed of their test-and-learn loop,” said Cameron McCord, CEO and co-founder at Nominal. “To maintain maritime security, autonomy is no longer optional, but necessary — and the HII and Nominal partnership will bring resilient technologies to bear at speed, at scale.”

The partnership builds on a successful pilot completed in 2025 that demonstrated meaningful cycle-time reductions across multiple workflows. During the pilot, teams reduced some analysis tasks from hours to minutes through standardized, automated analysis templates, and cut certain production test steps by approximately half by streamlining data capture and execution on the test floor.

In 2026, HII and Nominal will broaden deployment to support increased REMUS and ROMULUS production by integrating Nominal’s tools across HII’s product lifecycle and manufacturing systems. The focus is on providing engineering, test, and quality teams with a shared, repeatable way to collect, validate, and analyze data — reducing time spent assembling information and increasing time spent on expanding production capacity.

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“We are delighted to welcome the talented employees of Seeman Composites and MSC to the Karman team where, together, we can deliver advanced solutions across all domains with greater speed, agility and scale than ever before,” said Tony Koblinski, chief executive officer of Karman. “As an all-domain solutions provider, Karman now offers unique, IP-enabled solutions for critical space and defense systems operating in extreme environments ranging from the high pressure of the deep ocean to the searing heat of atmospheric re-entry. Our expanded portfolio of intellectual property incorporating advanced metallics, energetics, composites and resins gives us the ability to design our solutions to customer requirements and produce at scale to support mission success.”

Based on the acquisitions, Karman has established a fourth end market, “Maritime Defense Systems,” which will include revenue from Seemann, MSC and the company’s ongoing maritime projects. Karman’s other end markets are Hypersonics and Strategic Missile Defense, Tactical Missiles and Integrated Defense Systems and Space & Launch. Sid Charbonnet, president of Seemann and MSC, has joined the company’s leadership team.

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The Coast Guard renewal builds on a partnership first established in 2020 with a $50 million award. Under the extended agreement, Pole Star Defense continues to deliver vessel tracking, system modernization, and cloud-based analytics that support Coast Guard operations nationwide.

“This renewal ensures the Coast Guard has the intelligence they need to identify threats and the positioning data they need to find vessels in distress,” said Alex Field, Managing Director of Pole Star Defense. “Domain awareness and search and rescue are two sides of the same coin, both depend on knowing exactly where vessels are, in real time.”

Under a new five-year, $400,000 contract, Pole Star Defense will provide vessel intelligence through multiple data feeds to support the Army Corps of Engineers’ waterway management and infrastructure management mission.

“The inland waterway system moves 600 million tons of cargo annually, and the Corps is responsible for keeping it running,” said Alex Field. “We’re proud to support that mission.”

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The MMM system is a radio frequency receiving antenna that provides U.S. Navy submarines the ability to detect, identify, and direction-find adversary communications signals before rising to the surface. The antennas will mount on new Virginia-class submarines and feed into Lockheed Martin’s AN/BLQ-10 electronic warfare (EW) system.

“In dynamic and contested environments, stealth is key, and submarines rely on accurate communications signal information to make decisions quickly,” said Michael Rottman, program area director for maritime sensors and systems at BAE Systems. “The Multifunction Modular Mast system equips U.S. Navy submarines with critical capabilities to locate and identify potential threats, enabling them to analyze and respond accordingly.”

As network-centric naval warfare evolves, advanced sensors, data links, communications, and EW systems are needed to outpace threats. The MMM system plays a critical role in electromagnetic spectrum dominance and strategic situational awareness. It provides operators with a reliable secondary source to detect nearby adversaries, in addition to radar and sonar.

The tactical communications receiving antenna resides in a composite radome. Its pressure-rated and corrosion-resistant design allows the unit to survive the harsh undersea environment and maximize signal-gathering performance while minimizing visibility of the mast and platform. The system also includes a payload module that enables the U.S. Navy to incorporate additional sensors for other mission applications.

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The capability uses artificial intelligence to assign unique tracking identifiers, allowing organizations to maintain custody of high-interest vessels across time and space. By automating continuity and scoring the confidence of each identification, the solution provides scalable insight into maritime activity without dependence on self-reported data sources or human intensive processes.

“This capability represents a major step forward for decision-makers who need reliable custody of critical maritime targets,” said Greg Skotzko, director of product management at HawkEye 360. “By applying AI to automate vessel tracking and integrate movement analysis, we are enabling the Defense and Intelligence Communities to monitor complex environments with greater accuracy and efficiency.”

By reducing manual workload and scaling analytic outputs, this AI-enabled maritime custody capability enhances the ability of defense and intelligence organizations to build patterns of life, expose deceptive behaviors, and direct resources more effectively across global areas of interest, according to the company.

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This combined experience from across the national security, technology and defense industries will further support Kraken’s accelerated growth and development. This includes a move to large-scale localized manufacturing in several key strategic regions including the U.S., broadening of key technological partnerships, accelerated development and roll-out of operationally hardened capabilities and expansion of bespoke programs for a growing U.S. customer base.

This move follows the successful completion of a series of national demonstrations directly to operator groups in the U.S. Kraken is currently on contract with a number of U.S. customers including U.S. Special Operations Command and the U.S. Navy. Kraken will continue to develop and expand its position as an established market leader in the provision of uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) to the U.S. Department of War and its NATO Allies, the company said.

“Kraken is focused on delivering high-quality transformational capabilities to NATO Allies and international partners. The credibility and expertise of our international advisors is unparalleled, and their involvement confirms and supports a rapidly growing adoption of Kraken capabilities on both sides of the Atlantic,” Mal Crease, CEO and founder of Kraken Technology Group, said. “Kraken has firmly established its presence across NATO Europe and is now focused on embedding and expanding these proven capabilities in support of the U.S. and its Allies. We are humbled to have such captains of industry on our team.”

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“Parsons is proud to partner with the U.S. Coast Guard on this vital modernization effort that will enhance operational efficiency and expand biometric capabilities to meet the evolving needs of maritime law enforcement and national security,” said Jon Moretta, president, engineered systems for Parsons. “Our team is committed to delivering advanced technology solutions that empower the Coast Guard to achieve its mission of ensuring the nation’s maritime safety, security and stewardship.”

Under this contract, Parsons will provide personnel for strategic planning and technical expertise to support the software and hardware of the company’s JavelinXL devices and the Ares Gateway, which are key components of the BASS platform. Parsons will also supply and deploy JavelinXL devices to Coast Guard units conducting maritime law enforcement activities.

Parsons’ JavelinXL kits and Ares Gateway will provide the Coast Guard with cutting-edge tools to collect and analyze biometric data in real-time, enabling faster identity verification and improved threat detection during critical missions. The JavelinXL devices are rugged, Android-based handhelds designed for multi-modal biometric capture, including four-finger slap prints, dual-iris scans, facial imagery, and voice data and are in use by federal customers around the world. Managed through Parsons’ Ares mobile application, these devices provide lightweight, modular, and efficient solutions for collecting and integrating biometric data in dynamic maritime environments.

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