Seasats says it booked more than $24 million in USV orders in one month

By Atlas Watchline Staff · Corporate · September 4, 2026

Seasats said it booked more than $24 million in new orders in a single month from U.S. national security customers, including deliveries to the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Navy.

Seasats said it booked more than $24 million in new orders in one month from U.S. national security customers, including Lightfish unmanned surface vessels for delivery to the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Navy.

The San Diego company said the orders include vessel purchases and Robot-as-a-Service contracts. It said the funding is committed money, not a ceiling value on contract vehicles.

Seasats said some customers are buying the vessels outright, while others are contracting for sensor coverage through service arrangements in which the company operates and maintains the boats.

In its release, Seasats said the buying pattern reflects deployments already in use rather than long-range experimentation. CEO Mike Flanigan said, "This isn't funding to explore the use of autonomous systems years from now. These are customers putting real dollars behind capability they can deploy today."

Flanigan also said, "We're seeing demand grow across the U.S. government because small, long-endurance USVs solve an increasingly relevant problem: how do we maintain persistent awareness at sea, at scale, and at range."

Seasats described its Lightfish USV as about 11 feet long and 360 pounds, with solar power and multi-month endurance on station. The company said the vessel can be carried in the back of a pickup truck and launched by two people from a boat ramp. It said the modular payload bay has carried electro-optical and infrared cameras, surveillance payloads, and sonar systems in prior missions.

The company said it has secured more than $100 million in customer contracts overall and has USVs operating with the U.S. Navy, NOAA, and research institutions worldwide. Seasats also said it is backed by Shield Capital, L3Harris Technologies, and Konvoy Ventures.

Seasats did not say which other U.S. government customers were included in the new orders or when the deliveries would be completed.

Sources

• PR Newswire release

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