This Veterans Day, we thank those who have served, including the veterans on our team. Their experience helps shape the technology we build and our understanding of the people who rely on it.
On November 18, we’re co-hosting an event with Redeployment where we’ll welcome veterans and transitioning service members to Seasats HQ for the Redeployment Networking Series, Vol. 2: Connecting the Fleet to Autonomy.
Attendees will enjoy a panel discussion, a facility tour, and time to connect with operators, customers, and builders working in maritime autonomy.
If you’re a veteran or transitioning service member interested in attending, request a spot at the link in the comments. Space is limited.
#Seasats #Veterans #VeteransDay #Redeployment #SanDiego #MaritimeAutonomy #DefenseTech #Networking
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Seasats and @neros_tech are pairing maritime persistence with precision strike capability to deliver affordable effects at scale.
The partnership brings Neros’ Archer 10" Strike and Archer AI FPV drones aboard Quickfish, combining 40-knot sprint speed and multi-week loiter endurance with several strike drones carried in an enclosed, modular payload bay.
Satellite connectivity allows pilots to operate from anywhere in the world, well beyond visual line of sight. Operators can maintain presence, reposition quickly, and respond from the air without putting a crew on the water.
“Maritime awareness matters most when operators can act on what they see,” said Mike Flanigan, co-founder and CEO of Seasats.
Watch the launch footage below and read the full announcement at the link in the comments.
#Seasats #Neros #Quickfish #MaritimeAutonomy #USV #UAS #DefenseTech #MaritimeSecurity
Seasats’ Lightfish has received the first Naval Permit to Operate issued under Australia’s Defence Seaworthiness Program, showing that autonomous vessels can be assessed and authorized to operate in Australian Defence service.
The permit allowed Lightfish to participate in Rim of the Pacific 2026, the world’s largest international maritime exercise. This approval establishes a practical pathway for testing new maritime capabilities in Australia.
Read the full article and learn more about Seasats’ partner in Australia, Elysium EPL, at the link in the comments.
#Seasats #Lightfish #RIMPAC2026 #AUKUS #MaritimeAutonomy #USV #AutonomousSystems #DefenseTech
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Maritime autonomy is expanding what’s possible at sea while helping reduce the physical and mental toll of crewed deployments.
@TheHustle spoke with Seasats CEO Mike Flanigan about how robotics and autonomy are expanding access to the ocean, and with @USNavy veteran Mike Lehn about the potential for autonomous vessels to ease the demands on those who serve at sea.
Read the full story at the link in the comments.
#Seasats #MaritimeAutonomy #USV #Lightfish #Autonomy #TheHustle
On October 6th, Seasats’ new 60,000-square-foot headquarters was officially opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, celebrating the people behind its growth and the capacity to deliver more capability on the water.
Thank you to the team, families, customers, partners, and community leaders who joined the celebration and continue to support the company’s mission.
Over the past six years, Seasats has grown from a small team into a trusted provider of autonomous surface vessels for the U.S. government and other customers. Now, the company has the infrastructure for the next level of scale.
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Earlier this summer, Seasats' Lightfish was deployed as part of Exercise Northern Viking 2026 in Iceland, supporting Commander, Task Force 66 in training U.S. and Icelandic Coast Guard operators on unmanned surface vessel operations in the North Atlantic.
Northern Viking 2026 is a joint force and allied live exercise designed to strengthen interoperability and readiness across the Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom gap. As allied ships and aircraft patrolled the Icelandic coastline, Lightfish operators trained on deploying and controlling autonomous surface vessels built to provide persistent maritime domain awareness in all weather and sea conditions.
The Icelandic Coast Guard knows these waters better than anyone. Lightfish gives them the tools to monitor them persistently and autonomously.
Read more through the link in the comments.
#Seasats #Lightfish #NorthernViking2026 #MaritimeDomainAwareness #USV #AutonomousSystems #NATO #GUIK #DefenseTech
Build systems that go to sea. Deliver capabilities that matter.
Seasats is hiring to scale production and accelerate deployment of autonomous systems that close maritime blind spots for defense, security, and commercial missions worldwide.
New roles span composites, electronics, finance, human resources, IT, manufacturing, mechanical, operations, program management, and software.
Join the team. View current openings at the link in the comments.
#Seasats #Hiring #MaritimeAutonomy #DefenseTech
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Mission requirements change fast. Payload integration needs to keep pace.
U.S. Patent 12,576,953 reflects years of Seasats investment in the electrical, mechanical, and software architecture behind our modular payload system.
Our open modular interface provides our customers and technology partners a common mechanism to rapidly integrate payloads and mission systems onto Seasats USVs. Using this interface, customers have integrated new payloads in hours, with projects that once took months now completed in days, often in the field, or at experimentation events.
The architecture also supports government reference architectures such as MARA, helping align rapidly integrated capabilities with the evolving needs of the Navy and special operations community.
Less time integrating. More time operating.
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Meet Max Kramers, Seasats' Chief of Vehicle Design and co-founder.
Kramers leads mechanical design for Seasats’ vessels, beginning with preliminary sketches and continuing through prototypes, sea trials, and production. His expertise spans hull design, power and propulsion, and everything in between. Much of his work involves anticipating what could go wrong on real missions and shaping the next design iteration accordingly. His background in high-performance sailing gives him an intuitive understanding of how vehicle-ocean interactions that simulations alone can't replicate.
When asked what he likes the most about working at Seasats, Max says it’s the team’s speed: "In an industry where vaporware is unfortunately common, Seasats stands apart by being real. If we say we can do something, it's because we already have."
#DefenseTech #MaritimeAutonomy #AutonomousSystems #Leadership #Seasats #MeetTheTeam
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Today, Seasats marked its sixth anniversary with a ribbon cutting at its new 60,000-square-foot San Diego headquarters.
Seasats has grown around a clear mission: closing maritime blind spots. This facility expands capacity to deliver persistent maritime awareness for defense, border protection, and commercial missions.
That growth means more high-skill jobs here in San Diego and more production capability to support customers around the world. It reinforces this city’s leading role in building the maritime autonomous systems of the future.
Thank you to the team, families, customers, and partners who made this milestone possible.
#Seasats #MaritimeAutonomy #DefenseTech #SanDiego
Seasats is doubling its autonomous maritime surveillance presence on the U.S. southern border, deploying a fleet of Lightfish from the Texas coast into the Gulf of America in support of border security operations.
“We have progressively prototyped and piloted solutions using their Lightfish USV in the challenging riverine environment of the Rio Grande and the vast expanse of the Gulf of America. This is all part of our efforts to gain 100% operational control of our borders,” said ASW Mark R. Ditlevson, Assistant Secretary of War, Homeland Defense and Americas Security Affairs.
Persistent autonomous surveillance gives the U.S. greater visibility across its borders, helping detect threats earlier and direct resources where they’re needed most.
Read more in the @Reuters article linked in the comments.
#GulfofAmerica #TexasCoast #BorderControl #AutonomousSurveillance #Seasats
Meet Mike Flanigan, Seasats’ CEO and co-founder.
Flanigan and his partners founded Seasats after seeing the early maritime robotics industry fall short of its promises to customers. Drawing on his deep experience in USVs, cross-disciplinary engineering, and automated manufacturing, he saw a better way—and an opportunity to deliver functional, reliable systems that solve real problems: ocean autonomy that works.
As CEO, Mike leads with deep technical knowledge, high standards, humility, and humor. Since the company’s inception, he has led team growth to over 100 people, closed multiple funding rounds, and built an organization that is living the promise of deploying ocean autonomy daily around the globe.
Asked what he values most about Seasats, Mike points to its people: “It’s hard to think of something more rewarding than working on an important mission with great people.”
#DefenseTech #MaritimeAutonomy #AutonomousSystems #Leadership #Seasats #MeetTheTeam
This week at @OCEANS_Conf 2026 in Monterey, Seasats is presenting on how uncrewed surface vehicles are advancing surveying.
Lightfish can collect high-quality seafloor data across large and remote areas while reducing cost, risk, and personnel requirements. The result is a clearer picture of the underwater environment to support safer navigation, scientific research, infrastructure planning, and maritime operations.
Visit the Seasats team at Booth #303 to learn more.
#OCEANS2026 #OceanMapping #USV #MaritimeTechnology
