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Saildrone develops and deploys advanced autonomous systems for ocean exploration, environmental monitoring, and security. Its fleet has proven reliability in extreme conditions, delivering high-resolution data for scientific, commercial, and defense applications.

Saildrone’s unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) are equipped with industry-leading sonar, atmospheric sensors, and acoustic monitoring systems. They support deep-sea and near-shore mapping, metocean data collection, fisheries research, and CO2 monitoring with precision instrumentation.

With three classes of USVs designed for endurance and adaptability, Saildrone provides trusted solutions for bathymetry, maritime security, offshore energy, and infrastructure protection worldwide.

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Saildrone Deploys Autonomous USV Fleet for Coast Guard Border Security

Saildrone's contract with the US Coast Guard brings 16 Voyager unmanned surface vehicles to the Great Lakes and Northeast coast to track illicit activity and illegal fishing

May 19, 2026

Saildrone & Woolpert Deploy Autonomous Technology to Map the Mariana Trench

Saildrone and Woolpert partner with NOAA to utilize uncrewed surface vehicles for high-resolution deep-ocean bathymetry in one of the world's most geologically significant regions

Apr 07, 2026

Unmanned Survey of Florida’s Coastal Waters Begins

Saildrone is contributing to the Florida Seafloor Mapping Initiative to collect a high-resolution seafloor data set of Florida’s coastal waters within the continental shelf

Mar 19, 2025

NDBC Expands Ocean Observation Network with Uncrewed Systems

The National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) outlines a strategy using moored buoys and Saildrone uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) to address gaps in ocean data collection and advance national security

Sep 27, 2024

Saildrone USVs Conduct Gulf of Maine Seafloor Survey

Saildrone, using its Voyager uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs), mapped 1,500 square nautical miles in the Gulf of Maine to retrieve key data from marine habitats

Sep 02, 2024

Autonomous USV to Survey Cayman Islands’ Seafloor

Saildrone is set to map the Cayman Islands’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), covering 29,300 square nautical miles with its autonomous Surveyor USV to interpret the region’s seafloor topography

Aug 21, 2024

Uncrewed Surface Vessel Fleet to Research Hurricanes

The NOAA, predicting an 85% chance of an above-normal hurricane season, has partnered with Saildrone to send a USV fleet to aid understanding of how the storms form and intensify

Aug 13, 2024

USVs to Continue Gulf of Maine Seafloor Mapping

Two Saildrone uncrewed surface vessels will be gathering accurate ocean depths and seafloor topography in the Gulf of Maine to aid navigation, telecommunications, and more

May 31, 2024

USVs Reduce Operational Emissions for Maritime Data Gathering

Saildrone has released its Carbon Impact Report, showing they avoided 99.9% of operational emissions for maritime data gathering, among other impressive sustainability achievements

Apr 29, 2024

Partnership to Advance Autonomous Long-Range Undersea Surveillance

Saildrone and Thales Australia have created a USV–towed array integration that aims to advance autonomous long-range subsea surveillance for autonomous anti-submarine warfare

Apr 22, 2024

Aluminum Unmanned Surface Vessel Launched at Austal USA

The first aluminum Surveyor USV from Saildrone has been completed, powered by wind, solar, and a diesel generator for long-range, long-endurance missions in the open ocean

Mar 11, 2024

Saildrone Voyager USV Earns Formal Classification

ABS granted AIP for Saildrone’s Voyager and the larger 65-foot Surveyor platform, since granting the first-ever class certificate for a USV to the Voyager

Nov 13, 2023

Hurricane Measured from Satellites Through the Sea

A Saildrone, Anduril’s Altius 600 sUAS, dropsondes, and other instruments collected data at multiple levels of the atmosphere to learn how storms form, build, and intensify

Nov 10, 2023

Saildrone Fleet Travels More Than 1,000,000 Nautical Miles

The fleet holds 136 vehicles powered primarily by renewable wind and solar energy, equipped with state-of-the-science sensors that measure ocean environment parameters

Oct 23, 2023

USA Marine Sanctuary Weather Buoy Replaced with Saildrone

Saildrone’s Explorers are powered exclusively by renewable energy and can stay on station for months at a time before sailing autonomously to port for regular service

Oct 04, 2023

Official Highest Wind Speed Recorded by a USV

The Saildrone Explorer SD 1045 will be in a new entry in the 2024 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records for measuring 109.83 knots (126.4 mph) of wind speed

Sep 29, 2023