Product profile
Outpost
ThayerMahan Outpost is a persistent maritime surveillance USV that harvests energy from wave, solar and wind resources while towing passive sonar arrays an...
Facts
- Company
- ThayerMahan
- Product type
- usv
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- maritime_surveillance
- Website
- https://thayermahan.com/systems/outpost/
About Outpost
ThayerMahan Outpost is a persistent maritime surveillance USV that harvests energy from wave, solar and wind resources while towing passive sonar arrays and processing acoustic detections at the edge.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Persistent maritime surveillance USV
Core: Outpost
Function: Long-endurance maritime awareness
Audience: Naval and maritime security operators
Specifications
- acoustic_payload
- Passive towed sonar arrays with automatic detection and classification
- array_channels
- Published study describes a 32-channel towed hydrophone array channels
- data_transmission
- Secure near-real-time reporting to shore
- demonstrated_unattended_days
- Published study reports up to 50 days unattended at sea days
- detection_processing
- Automatic detection and classification of maritime targets
- energy_sources
- Wave, solar and wind energy harvesting
- hull_length_ft
- Outpost uses a 22-foot hull ft
- independent_operation_days
- More than 90 days of independent operation using harvested energy days
- mission_roles
- ASW, ASuW, coastal security, infrastructure and marine-mammal monitoring
- reporting
- Near-real-time maritime reporting
Operations
- Environment
- marine_surface, offshore, defence
- Primary user
- naval operators, maritime security teams, offshore operators
- Role
- maritime_surveillance, antisubmarine_surveillance, port_security
- Interaction model
- autonomous, remote_supervised
- Mobility class
- surface_vessel
- Product detail
- https://zlsbkmaixmmnjrgpkcyp.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/robotics_assets/products/korthos-product-candidates-2026-08-18-batch-8/thayermahan-outpost-official-16x9.jpg, energy_harvesting_usv, robot, 1600, 900, e2dc636a0b3dd67a415c096470435f7a7e9d7b9ca64a75ef6c67126b3273ab35, reviewed_16x9_official_media, Persistent Maritime Surveillance USV, robotics_assets, https://thayermahan.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Outpost-Fleet-on-the-Mystic-River_DIGITAL.png, https://thayermahan.com/systems...