The maritime domain is enormous and undermanned. Navies, coast guards, and commercial operators cannot crew enough hulls to patrol the waters they are responsible for, and putting sailors on small vessels for dull, dirty, and dangerous missions costs lives and money.
The value of unmanned surface vessels has been proven decisively in recent conflicts. The obstacle is not the concept, it is the cost and lead time of building new autonomous hulls from scratch. The faster path is conversion.
Rather than selling new hulls, we convert existing 16 to 24 ft commercial and government vessels into autonomous unmanned surface vessels: GPS-denied capable, sea-state durable, and mission-ready in a fraction of the time and cost of new construction.
Converted vessels serve as unmanned motherships, launching long-range UAS from deck at sea with no crew aboard and extending air reach far beyond the shoreline.
Heavy-lift aerial delivery between vessels and the beach: the last mile of maritime supply, with no landing craft and no crew exposure.
xNav provides COLREGS-compliant autonomous navigation and lets a single operator command many vessels, with mixed air and surface fleets under one system.
Conversion, air, and logistics operate as one system. A single operator commands mixed air and surface fleets under COLREGS-compliant autonomy.
Conversion of an existing 16 to 24 ft hull into an autonomous USV: GPS-denied capable, sea-state durable, and mission-ready in a fraction of new-build time.
Converted vessel as a launch and recovery platform for long-range UAS at sea, extending the sensor and effects horizon with no crew aboard.
Heavy-lift aerial logistics between vessels and the beach and between hulls, covering the last mile with no landing craft and no crew exposure.
Persistent coverage of harbors, approaches, and anchorages.
Standing surveillance and counter-UAS over terminals and berths.
Air and surface collection over coastal waters and economic zones.
UAS launched at sea from an uncrewed hull.
Last-mile delivery between vessels and the beach.
Aerial movement of loads between hulls underway.
Survey and environmental work with no crew on the water.
Defense of maritime infrastructure against hostile drones.
Tasking that keeps sailors off the water entirely.
Powerus fields one autonomous architecture across six missions, shared platforms, shared ground control, a single U.S. supply chain.
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