{"id":52274,"date":"2026-06-14T07:44:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/52274\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T07:44:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:44:39","slug":"hanwha-and-havocai-to-develop-200-foot-autonomous-surface-vessel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/52274\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanwha and HavocAI to Develop 200-Foot Autonomous Surface Vessel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">On Jan. 8, 2026, Hanwha Defense USA, Hanwha Systems Co, and U.S.-based collaborative autonomy company HavocAI announced they will jointly develop 200-foot autonomous surface vessels (ASV). This agreement pairs the leading global shipbuilding company with the most advanced collaborative autonomy technology on the market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hanwha Defense USA press release<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u200d<br \/>Hanwha is currently the only shipbuilder with an operational shipyard in the United States to enter into a joint agreement with an autonomous vessels company. Hanwha Philly Shipyard is under consideration to produce the 200-foot autonomous ASV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u200d<br \/>HavocAI recently closed a $85m funding round, publicly confirmed the sale of dozens of vessels to the U.S. Department of War, and successfully demonstrated their collaborative autonomy technology in GPS-denied environments to Ukrainian officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u200d<br \/>\u201cBy forging a partnership between an allied defense company with advanced manufacturing scale in Hanwha with a software-first defense technology company in HavocAI, we will deliver state-of-the art ASVs at scale for American service members,\u201d said\u00a0Hanwha Defense USA CEO Michael Coulter. \u201cThis agreement will not only deliver for the American warfighter but will create much-needed competition for the Department of War acquisition process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u200d<br \/>\u201cThe Department of War has sent a clear demand signal to the shipbuilding industry: we need more boats, faster, with more capabilities, for less money,\u201d said\u00a0Paul Lwin, Co-founder and CEO of HavocAI. \u201cPartnerships like this \u2013 pairing a leading-edge technology with an established global infrastructure \u2013 are exactly how we achieve that goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Hanwha and HavocAI Formalize Partnership to Develop 200-Foot Autonomous Surface Vessel\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/hanwha-havoc-ai-1024x576.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u200d<br \/>Under the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), the companies will jointly develop these ASVs to include mass production planning, installation, proposal development, and technical domains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u200d<br \/>Production will be pursuant to the U.S. Government\u2019s Modular Attack Surface Craft solicitation program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u200d<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hanwhadefenseusa.com\/news-articles\/hanwha-and-havoc-ai-pursue-global-partnership-in-unmanned-maritime-systems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Last October<\/a>, Hanwha and Havoc AI announced a strategic relationship following a joint technology demonstration from Hanwha Ocean\u2019s Geoje shipyard in Korea where Havoc AI conducted an autonomous force protection mission off the coast of Hawaii, with beyond-line-of-sight command and control from Geoje.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 End \u2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Jan. 8, 2026, Hanwha Defense USA, Hanwha Systems Co, and U.S.-based collaborative autonomy company HavocAI announced they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[355,354,8988,29865],"class_list":["post-52274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hanwha","tag-hanwha","tag-hanwha-group","tag-havoc-ai","tag-usv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}