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SEA-KIT Secures USV Export Deal

Essex, United Kingdom (8 December 2022) - SEA-KIT International has announced a Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) export sale to ThayerMahan, a world leader in autonomous maritime solutions based in Connecticut, USA.

The X-Class USV's award-winning combination of extended range, high sea state endurance and payload capacity attracted ThayerMahan initially to the UK-based USV technology leader. The fact that SEA-KIT's vessels are already commercially proven across the globe also factored heavily in their decision-making process.

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Mike Connor, President and CEO at ThayerMahan, said:
We are always striving to improve the efficiency of maritime domain awareness and to keep people safe. SEA-KIT's flexible payload design enables us to host multiple, sophisticated maritime sensing systems onboard, which in turn will support ThayerMahan to continue leading the field of remote and autonomous mobile acoustic sensing and sense making. We envisage that the introduction of this hi-tech USV to our portfolio will enhance the protection of ports and vessels at sea as well as have a positive impact on illicit trafficking across international borders.

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L-R: Mike Connor-CEO ThayerMahan, John Russ-VP Ops Engineering ThayerMahan, Ben Simpson-CEO SEA-KIT, Richard Hine-COO ThayerMahan

ThayerMahan is a world-leading provider of state-of-the-art remote and autonomous maritime sensing systems for government, industry and academia. The company plans to use the SEA-KIT USV to support introduction of the technology into government service, as well as for its own commercial activities in US and international waters.