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Defense Procurement

Nine Builders, Three Boats

Nov 2, 2026

Two Korean shipbuilding groups are putting uncrewed warships in the water for a US Navy that hasn’t ordered them. That’s how this market is meant to work. Next year’s budget is the problem.

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They Own the Fleet. You Buy the Hours.

Oct 26, 2026

In Week 40 I mapped two ways to scale a maritime autonomy company. A third group owns the fleet, runs it and sells the coverage. Buyers get sensors in the water faster, and they pay for that speed somewhere else.

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This Ship Does Not Have a Client

Oct 19, 2026

A letter of intent got EUROGUARD funded. It hasn’t got it ordered.

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DEEP DIVE: Japan Built the Whole Thing Quietly

Oct 12, 2026

Certified autonomous ships, a ¥100 billion unmanned coastal defence, and a defence ministry that now wants the two to meet. Very little of it went through AUKUS.

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Drone Subs Can Shoot Now. Who Shoots Back?

Sep 28, 2026

The allies just fired a torpedo from one. The counter to someone else's still has no program of record.

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The Yards Are Korean. The Question Is Whose Navy.

Sep 21, 2026

Hanwha owns a Philadelphia shipyard. The US Navy sent RFIs to three Korean builders. Canada came within a whisker of buying Korean submarines. Three separate trade stories. One fact sitting underneath all of them.

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DEEP DIVE: Own the Factory or Own the Sonar

Sep 14, 2026

Saronic is building the factory. Kraken is building the network. Both bet a different answer to the same question: how do you get from tens of hulls to hundreds without a shipbuilding base sized for either? Neither model is proven at volume, and the US Navy is buying from both.

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Nothing Grows on a Crewed Hull for Long

Sep 7, 2026

A hull on station for weeks grows its own reef. The posted endurance figures pretend it does not, while the rulebook for scraping it off was written for ships that come home.

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You Can't 3D Print a Program of Record

Aug 31, 2026

Printing a hull is becoming routine. Turning it into something a navy can actually buy is a different problem, and nobody has solved it.

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INTEL DROP: Suing the Navy. Funded by the Navy.

Aug 13, 2026

A $40 million ocean-survey IDIQ. Both plaintiffs already hold a seat.

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Australia Wants to Sell. Washington Holds the Licence.

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.

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Five Eyes, One Fleet: The Industrial Access Problem Nobody Is Asking About

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.

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What You Can't Buy With an OTA

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.

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Good Science, No Contract

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.

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What's actually in the tank? The autonomous vessel fuel race

Jun 22, 2026

Four pathways are racing to solve it. Only one is already proven on long-endurance autonomous missions.

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55 Hulls, No Operating Model. Who Runs the Fleet?

Jun 15, 2026

The autonomous vessel industry solved navigation. The operations problem is still open.

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Canberra has accepted a mine warfare risk. Here’s what that actually means.

Jun 8, 2026

Two minehunters left, no funded replacement, and a threat environment that didn't get the memo.

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Eight Days, No One Aboard: What Autonomous Endurance Means for the Inspection Economy

May 25, 2026

The technology barrier just fell. The procurement barrier hasn't.

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AUKUS at the Funding Line: What the Numbers Actually Say

May 18, 2026

Canberra is spending. Washington is appropriating and London is writing reports about why it should do more.

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Voluntary Markets, Defense Budgets: What Running Tide's Collapse Tells Us

May 11, 2026

Running Tide raised $50 million, delivered on every contract, and closed anyway. The technology wasn't the problem.

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The Navy Changed the Rules. Industry Showed Up.

May 4, 2026

Five platforms. One pattern. What the MUSV marketplace actually proved.

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Saronic Just Planted a Flag in the Taiwan Strait

Apr 29, 2026

Dino Mavrookas flew to Taipei. Here is what the MOU with NCSIST actually means.

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The Whole Stack

Apr 27, 2026

China's dual-use ocean tech strategy isn't a secret. It's hiding in plain sight.

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LockSimple

Anduril x Kraken Technology Group

Apr 24, 2026

Scale is the strategy. Here's who just proved it.

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Quantum Navigation: The Unsexy Enabler

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.

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