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Blue Water Autonomy, With Plans For Autonomous Oceangoing Navy Ships, Raises $14 Million

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, April 11th, 2025

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Blue Water Autonomy, With Plans For Autonomous Oceangoing Navy Ships, Raises $14 Million

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A Boston-based startup with plans to design and build autonomous unmanned ships that can operate in the open ocean with the Navy’s fleet emerged from stealth last Friday with a $14 million seed round to help with hiring and testing. Blue Water Autonomy, Inc. this month began testing its autonomy suite and the company’s plan is to build affordable, “relatively attritable,” multi-mission ships that are longer than 100-feet with ranges of “many thousands of nautical miles,” and can operate for…

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