Fireside Chat, Interview, Product Demonstration
Inside the Factory Building America’s Autonomous Navy
- Plans to announce a $392 million contract with the Navy in December 2025.
- Anticipates building capacity for 2,000 Corsairs annually within a few years and scaling to larger platforms once the program is proven.
- Port Alpha will initially support 850-foot vessels with expansion plans to accommodate 1,200-foot ships, potentially growing to over 4,000 acres and 2 million gross tons of capacity.
- Aims to deploy 150,000 gross tons of capacity at Port Alpha shortly and intends to construct the largest and most advanced shipyard globally.
- Projects the creation of over 10,000 jobs at the Port Alpha site over the next decade.
- Focuses on international production standup for allies and partners, alongside a strategic shift toward commercial shipbuilding.
- Relies on hardware/software co-design, autonomy, and ship design innovation to enable scaled production and rapid iterative testing.
- Intends to design for manufacturability to eliminate the need for 15 years of worker experience, supported by heavy investments in training, processes, and infrastructure.
- Targets 99.99999 percent confidence in platform performance through n plus one redundancy and daily software improvements.
- Seeks to supplement existing U.S. naval capacity with scalable, cost-efficient platforms rather than traditional aircraft carriers.
- Identifies China as the primary strategic threat, with the Corsair platform intended to deter potential crossings of the Taiwan Strait.
- Cites historical budget declines, including a 41 percent drop in Navy funding after 1993 and the removal of commercial shipbuilding subsidies 45 years ago, as key drivers for the current need to rebuild the industry.
- Claims the U.S. currently holds only 0.1 percent of global shipbuilding capacity and builds naval fleets 230 to 1 fewer than China.
- Emphasizes that software and autonomy developed for the Corsair will translate across all new products to facilitate rapid development cycles.
- Expects hybrid fleets to differ significantly from traditional models, utilizing small, fast vessels similar to effective tactics observed in Ukraine.