In a shipbuilding industry defined by tradition, one new entrant is seeking to rewrite the rules of how naval vessels are designed, built and delivered. Saronic Technologies, founded just three years ago,
In a shipbuilding industry defined by tradition, one new entrant is seeking to rewrite the rules of how naval vessels are designed, built and delivered. Saronic Technologies, founded just three years ago, is racing to create what CEO Dino Mavrookas calls “a next-generation shipbuilding ecosystem” — one capable of delivering unmanned surface vessels (USVs) at the speed and scale the U.S. and its allies will need to compete on tomorrow’s seas.
Saronic Technology’s ambition is staggering: a vertically integrated, AI-driven maritime manufacturer with its own shipyards, proprietary software stack, and thousands of employees, all funded by nearly $1 billion in private capital rather than government seed money. Its target customer: a commercial-driven product line-up but ultimately the U.S. Navy, which is shifting toward a hybrid fleet of manned and unmanned platforms to deter peer adversaries like China and Russia.
“We’re redefining maritime superiority,” Mavrookas said. “The question isn’t if the Navy will adopt autonomy at scale—it’s how fast we can deliver the technology and production capacity to make it real.”
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Mavrookas’s own path mirrors the convergence of defense and high technology shaping modern shipbuilding. A former U.S.
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