Company profile
Austal
Austal designs and builds aluminium and steel vessels for defence and commercial customers. Its autonomy exposure includes uncrewed-vessel manufacturing an...
Facts
- Segment
- MARITIME
- Country
- Australia
- Headquarters
- Henderson, Western Australia
- Founded
- 1988
- Ticker
- ASB
- Website
- https://www.austal.com/
About Austal
Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Henderson, Western Australia, Austal is a public shipbuilder with production and support operations across Australia, the United States, the Philippines and Vietnam. Its portfolio spans high-speed commercial craft, patrol vessels and larger naval programmes, supported by digital shipyard and sustainment capabilities.
Austal’s Korthos relevance is the industrialisation layer for autonomous maritime systems. The company has integrated autonomy into existing hull designs and entered a teaming agreement with Saildrone covering manufacture of aluminium Surveyor uncrewed surface vessels. That role differs from a software-first autonomy developer: Austal contributes naval architecture, production engineering, shipyard capacity and lifecycle support. Customer programme volumes and the share of revenue attributable to uncrewed systems remain limited or undisclosed.
Summary
Type: Shipbuilder
Core: Defence and uncrewed vessels
Function: Design and manufacture surface craft
Audience: Navies and maritime operators
Products
- Vantage 25 — usv
- Vantage 55 — usv