Lawyer by day, ocean tech obsessive by night. Writing about autonomous systems and regenerative materials.
Aug 3, 2026
Canberra's 2026 National Defence Strategy names Ghost Shark and Ghost Bat as export winners. The ITAR fine print hands Washington a veto over every sale outside AUKUS.
Jul 27, 2026
The US Navy opened the biggest unmanned shipbuilding competition in its history. An allied company can win a place in it. First it has to become American.
Jul 20, 2026
The Golden Fleet's money, contracts and hulls all arrived early. The four things that matter don't have a contract vehicle.
Jul 13, 2026
A containerised microreactor for future use in a disaster relief vessel reached criticality this week, while the USS Gerald R. Ford prepares to shortly power a naval base from its own reactors.
Jul 6, 2026
A new GAO report on robotic systems reads like a management case study. Ghost Shark is the receipt that makes it personal.
Jun 29, 2026
Marine biomaterials. SBTi Scope 3 pressure. A new Pentagon biobased product directive. Three things in the same room that haven't met yet.
Jun 22, 2026
Four pathways are racing to solve it. Only one is already proven on long-endurance autonomous missions.
Jun 15, 2026
The autonomous vessel industry solved navigation. The operations problem is still open.
Jun 8, 2026
Two minehunters left, no funded replacement, and a threat environment that didn't get the memo.
May 25, 2026
The technology barrier just fell. The procurement barrier hasn't.
May 18, 2026
Canberra is spending. Washington is appropriating and London is writing reports about why it should do more.
May 11, 2026
Running Tide raised $50 million, delivered on every contract, and closed anyway. The technology wasn't the problem.
May 4, 2026
Five platforms. One pattern. What the MUSV marketplace actually proved.
Apr 29, 2026
Dino Mavrookas flew to Taipei. Here is what the MOU with NCSIST actually means.
Apr 27, 2026
China's dual-use ocean tech strategy isn't a secret. It's hiding in plain sight.
Apr 24, 2026
Scale is the strategy. Here's who just proved it.
Apr 20, 2026
GPS is being spoofed at scale. Autonomous vessels have no one aboard to notice. An Adelaide company just put a critical subsystem of the solution into orbit.
Apr 13, 2026
The technology works. The statutes don't. How Norway built what AUKUS hasn't.
Apr 6, 2026
How Autonomous Systems Are Reshaping Undersea Infrastructure Defense
Mar 30, 2026
Australia’s nuclear submarine program is on track. The autonomous systems scaling alongside it are asking a question Canberra hasn’t answered.
Mar 23, 2026
The attack surface doesn’t disappear when you remove the crew. It transforms – into something existing doctrine, insurance, and international law cannot handle.
Mar 16, 2026
Auto insurance took ten years to price autonomy differently. Maritime autonomy is eight years in and still waiting.
Mar 9, 2026
The workforce crisis, the regulatory split, and the technology stack that's already working.
Mar 2, 2026
The West Is Still Writing Policy. Asia Is Running Ships.
Feb 23, 2026
Ocean-derived biodegradable materials are not ready for procurement at any meaningful scale. China is building the capacity that doesn’t exist yet.
