A New Paradigm
Making waves. Driving change.
Disruptive advancements in robotic miniaturization, digital communications and artificial intelligence – coupled with unsustainable costs of traditional maritime operations – are driving a sea-change in how to provide maritime security. ThayerMahan is at the cutting edge of this transformation.
Alfred Thayer Mahan, our company's namesake, is recognized as the premier naval strategist of his time. Mahan wrote that American greatness could not be achieved without command of the sea, both for economic prosperity in peacetime and superiority in war. His well-timed strategic vision along with revolutionary advancements in technology shaped America's approach to seapower for more than a century.Today, the ThayerMahan company is leading another paradigm shift in maritime capabilities. Like our namesake, we're challenging conventional maritime thinking – replacing massive with miniature, manned with unmanned, directed with autonomous, concentrated capital assets with distributed swarms, and bombs/bullets with information and electrons. While the means may be different, the end goal remains the same: to master emerging technology and apply it strategically to control the sea.
Our team fuses decades of experience in naval and maritime operations with information-age technological expertise. We know that global maritime strength will long require exquisite high-end ships, submarines, and aircraft crewed by expert human professionals. But faced with the massive financial burden of building and operating these capital assets, growing threats from strategic competitors, shifting roles for our military forces, and a dynamic political climate with evolving priorities, we see a need for disruptive change to maintain supremacy at sea.
ThayerMahan is leading that change and delivering effective maritime surveillance at a fraction of the cost.