Austin E Gray

⚓️ Reliable technology is forged in imperfect conditions. That takes extensive testing, both simulated and real-world. Our team prefers the latter. Last week we took our Autonomous Test Vessel (ATV) out for another round of sea trials, blessed with unusually warm spring weather.

 The day began sunny and clear. Within an hour, a dense fog rolled in and visibility dropped dramatically. In one of the photos you can barely see the ATV from the tugboat, but it navigated the conditions perfectly using its onboard autonomy systems.

 The trial reinforced a fundamental reality: nature is unpredictable, and our technology must anticipate it.

 We design for that reality through training, iteration, and constant testing at Blue Water. When Liberty splashes later this year, it will be backed by months of real-world testing.

 Autonomous systems are proven through repetition in real environments. Every sea trial, every edge case, and every lesson learned builds system reliability.

US shipbuilding actually builds A LOT!! But - American yards focus on smaller vessels, not the types Navies want or the type to carry the bulk of international trade. This is a simple condition of the Jones Act: US yards focus on building vessels that stay in US waters. With our Navy now needing more ships, they have to ask for what our industrial base can build. Simultaneously, with autonomous designs maturing rapidly, 100-200 foot ships make a ton of sense. This form factor is just big enough to be ocean-going, to sail alongside our blue water Navy, but just small enough to be produced en masse at many shipyards. Shipyard capacity - and autonomous ship designs - in the 100-200' range offers the Navy the only fast way to get more tonnage out into PACOM and CENTCOM.

Operation Epic Fury: The first 10 days (IEJ version)

someone built an OPENSOURCE MILITARY RADAR that tracks multiple targets up to 20km away its called AERIS-10, full github repo schematics, PCB layouts, FPGA code, python GUI, everything under MIT license commercial phased array radar starts at $250,000. military surplus is $10,000-50,000 but its decades old analog junk with no electronic beam steering this does electronic beam steering at 10.5GHz, pulse compression, doppler processing, multi-target tracking on a real time map two versions: 3km range with patch antenna array, 20km range with 32x16 slotted waveguide array and GaN AMPLIFIERS custom frequency synthesizer, 16 front-end chips, FPGA doing all signal processing, GPS and IMU for ACCURATE target coordinates when the platform moves all gerber files included so you can order the PCBs and build it yourself one person built what defense contractors charge a quarter MILLION for and open sourced it

Factory 3 is in the great state of Arizona and will be online in 6 months from lease -> cutting metal by Christmas 2025.