Saildrone

Alameda, California, United States · saildrone.com

Saildrone builds and operates autonomous uncrewed surface vessels for ocean mapping, maritime surveillance, defense and environmental data collection.

Robotics · watchlist · score 71

Positioning

Saildrone is a US maker of uncrewed surface vehicles (2M+ nautical miles logged) that landed a $50M Lockheed Martin strategic investment (October 2025, with JAGM missile-launcher integration and RIMPAC 2026 demonstrations), a renewed $16.3M Navy counter-narcotics task order, ABS full class certification, and a NOAA seafloor-mapping partnership. Its fleet size is undisclosed, and revenue estimates conflict (~$37-43M, both estimates rather than filings).

Latest signals

  • US Navy awards Saildrone $10 million contract for Atlantic seabed mappingInteresting Engineering
  • Saildrone fired two Lockheed missiles from an uncrewed vessel during RIMPAC.The Semiconductor Newsletter

2 signals name Saildrone. Members see all of them, filtered by topic, source and date.

Facts, with sources

  • [object Object]Revenue band · interestingengineering.com — 2026-09-18
  • USD 10000000Contract · interestingengineering.com — 2026-09-18

3 facts on file. Members see all of them with the source link.

Scores, Robotics (of 10)

Deployment6
Production6
Commercials6
Progress8
Technology8
Positioning8
Firepower6
Leverage8

Traction: deployment, production, commercials, progress. Capability: technology, positioning, firepower, leverage.

Questions this page answers

What does Saildrone do?

Saildrone builds and operates autonomous uncrewed surface vessels for ocean mapping, maritime surveillance, defense and environmental data collection. Saildrone is a US maker of uncrewed surface vehicles (2M+ nautical miles logged) that landed a $50M Lockheed Martin strategic investment (October 2025, with JAGM missile-launcher integration and RIMPAC 2026 demonstrations), a renewed $16.3M Navy counter-narcotics task order, ABS full class certification, and a NOAA seafloor-mapping partnership. Its fleet size is undisclosed, and revenue estimates

Where does Saildrone rank in robotics?

Saildrone is on the Robotics watchlist list of Frontier Tech Intelligence with a score of 71 out of 100, below the Top 100.

Where is Saildrone based and when was it founded?

Saildrone is based in Alameda, California, United States.

Every company on the frontier has a file like this. 2,000 of them, kept current by agents.

Subscribers see the full file, every signal, the live ranking and the questions the signals answer: where money moved, who controls the layer, where supply is constrained. $99 a month, 7-day trial. What Frontier Tech Intelligence is →

Subscribe · $99 a month