Blue Water Autonomy

Blue Water Autonomy is a Boston-based defense technology company building autonomous warships for open-ocean operations, with the goal of revitalizing U.S. shipbuilding through scalable, reliable, uncrewed naval vessels. Founded in 2025 by Rylan Hamilton (ex-U.S. Navy officer and founder of 6 River Systems), Scott N. Miller (ocean engineer and early iRobot engineer), and Austin Gray (former Navy intelligence officer), the company unveiled its 190-foot Liberty Class autonomous ship platform for the U.S. Navy in February 2026. Backed by a $50M Series A led by GV, Blue Water Autonomy operates from offices in Boston MA, Washington DC, Morgan City LA, and San Diego CA. This is a company profile in the API Evangelist network; the company publishes no public API, developer portal, or SDK surface as of this enrichment pass.

Blue Water Autonomy is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Frontier Tech, Defense, Autonomous Systems, and Maritime.

Blue Water Autonomy’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, YouTube channel, and 7 more developer resources.

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12.3/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyFrontier TechDefenseAutonomous SystemsMaritimeRoboticsShipbuildingNational Security

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Composite quality — 12.3/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Press

Press

LinkedIn

Twitter

Twitter

Source (apis.yml)

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name: Blue Water Autonomy
description: Blue Water Autonomy is a Boston-based defense technology company building autonomous warships for open-ocean
  operations, with the goal of revitalizing U.S. shipbuilding through scalable, reliable, uncrewed naval vessels. Founded
  in 2025 by Rylan Hamilton (ex-U.S. Navy officer and founder of 6 River Systems), Scott N. Miller (ocean engineer and early
  iRobot engineer), and Austin Gray (former Navy intelligence officer), the company unveiled its 190-foot Liberty Class autonomous
  ship platform for the U.S. Navy in February 2026. Backed by a $50M Series A led by GV, Blue Water Autonomy operates from
  offices in Boston MA, Washington DC, Morgan City LA, and San Diego CA. This is a company profile in the API Evangelist network;
  the company publishes no public API, developer portal, or SDK surface as of this enrichment pass.
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