Developing advanced automation and self-driving for vessels to increase the resiliency of our waterways and solve the workforce shortage. (HQ: Florida)
Developing a versatile drone that can float on the ocean, collect data, and fly swiftly on demand. (HQ: Missouri)
Creating dual-use passive acoustic sensing to protect biodiversity, reduce effects of anthropogenic noise on marine life, and enhance ocean safety and security. (HQ: Massachusetts)
Developing high endurance, modular construction, and portability combine with a user-driven UI and easy payload integrations to create a uniquely powerful uncrewed surface vessel package. (HQ: California)
Developing innovations to access, extract, decrypt and parse data logs with high detail. The results are a single platform to reduce complexity and time when investigating uncrewed vessel activity as well as advance cybersecurity. (HQ: Mississippi)
Developing an advanced wave energy converter that can power an uncrewed vessel and unlock the tremendous renewable energy potential of the world’s oceans. (HQ: Washington)
We’re all in the same boat!
The Gulf Blue Navigator program partners are essential to the success of the startups. These partners have been unwavering in their support by providing workshop hours, mentorship, introductions, and financial aid for the program. The result? A thriving ecosystem ready to support the growth of the Blue Economy on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi.