Swiftships is the industry leader in innovation and manufacturing highly specialized unmanned, minimally manned, or remotely controlled surface vessels. We believe that autonomous vessels are the future of modern naval warfare, offering critical defense capabilities, enhancing maritime infrastructure security globally, and mitigating human risk. In collaboration with industry technology leaders, we continuously develop new solutions for autonomy integration, unmanned surface vessel design, and consistently refine our construction and conversion methods.

We are pioneers in multiple disciplines in shipbuilding and systems integration. As early as 2015, we collaborated with the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL) in developing a partially manned/remote-controlled system, known as Anaconda (AN-2). The vessel was designed for brown water and near-coast missions with lethal capability, while ensuring the safety of the vessel’s crew during battle scenarios.

The Swiftships name has been central to discussions around Unmanned Autonomous Vessels (UAV) since the US Navy’s 2018 selection of the Swiftships’ Claire – a 175-feet Fast Supply Vessel (FSV) – for transformation into a Large Unmanned Surface Vessel (LUSV), named “Nomad”. Nomad became the first unmanned vessel of its kind added to Unmanned Surface Vessel Division One (USVDIV-1) and has undergone thorough testing during autonomous missions.