Saildrone

Saildrone’s fleet of uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) collect high-quality ocean data for a wide variety of applications. Using wind-powered propulsion technology and solar-powered sensors, the USVs are able to collect data in the most remote areas of the ocean, even in the harshest ocean environments.

Saildrone provides in situ ocean data as a fully managed mission service, collected by its fleet of USVs. Saildrone handles transport of the vehicles to the area of operations, launches, deploys, and retrieves them, and delivers high-resolution data in near-real time—all without large upfront customer investment. Data is delivered by its proprietary secure web portal or via API for integration into other common operating pictures (COPs).

"The mission-as-a-service model has been a huge success for our customers. We enable real-time access at scale to critical ocean data in a cost-effective way. Rather than selling our USVs, we deliver the core value for maritime defense and security, ocean mapping, and ocean data,” says Barak Ben-Gal, Chief Financial Officer at Saildrone.