
Rylan Hamilton
CEO & Co-Founder of Blue Water Autonomy, a Boston startup building autonomous ships for the U.S. Navy; previously co-founded 6 River Systems (sold to Shopify)
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Oct 19, 2026
S7E1: Autonomous Ships and the Future of Naval Defense
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Rylan HamiltonGUEST
We think about what are the most important things that we can carry for the Navy.

Rylan HamiltonGUEST
And so we can carry and fire missiles, we can carry radar systems, we can carry systems to go basically find and hunt down submarines, we can carry supplies for logistics.

Rylan HamiltonGUEST
Endurance, we built it so it can be out at sea for months at a time without intervention.

Rylan HamiltonGUEST
When we think about range, we want to make sure that can travel across the open oceans and it has enough fuel on board.
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US-China Tariff Tensions' Impact on Tech Sector
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Caroline HydeHOST
How much is the time now to be making automated ships suddenly far more prevalent when we've got U.S.-China tensions?

Rylan HamiltonGUEST
If we hear the current administration, they're talking about shipbuilding, shipbuilding, and shipbuilding.

Rylan HamiltonGUEST
And when you make them autonomous, you can remove the bridge, the berthing, the galley, the showers.

Rylan HamiltonGUEST
And because they're smaller, you don't have to build them at the big Navy shipyards.
Caroline HydeHOST
Why is now the right time from a technology perspective as well? What is going into making automation far more easy or certainly not easy, but far more able to enact right now?