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The Robot Navy: Inside America's Autonomous Shipyard
How a New Defense Industrial Base Is Building the Fleet Without Sailors

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The Robot Navy: Inside America's Autonomous Shipyard America’s shipyards are rusting. Its warships cost billions, take decades to build, and require crews the Navy can no longer find. Meanwhile, China launches more tonnage in a year than the U.S. manages in a decade. *The Robot Navy* takes you inside the frantic, high-stakes rebellion against this industrial obsolescence—where Silicon Valley venture capital meets the Pentagon’s deepest fears, and a new breed of defense startup is churning out fleets of autonomous, software-defined warships on the Colorado River instead of the James.

With unprecedented access to the founders, engineers, and venture capitalists building companies like Saronic, this book reveals how "attritable" drone ships—cheap enough to lose, lethal enough to deter—are upending two centuries of naval doctrine. You’ll witness the cultural collision between machinists and coders, the bureaucratic knife fights inside the Beltway, and the radical engineering philosophy that treats a hull as just a server rack for AI. It is a story of speed versus process, software versus steel, and the desperate race to field a "Ghost Fleet" before the Taiwan Strait becomes a flashpoint.

This isn't just a technology story; it is the definitive chronicle of the new Arsenal of Democracy being built at machine speed. From the clean rooms of Austin to the rolling decks of the Gulf, *The Robot Navy* exposes the most radical reimagining of sea power since the dreadnought—and asks whether a fleet without sailors can save a superpower that has forgotten how to build ships.

Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 The Rusting Yard: The Crisis of American Shipbuilding
  • Chapter 2 Silicon on the Water: Venture Capital Meets the Pentagon
  • Chapter 3 The Founders in Hard Hats: The Birth of Saronic
  • Chapter 4 Breaking the Prime Mold: Displacing Defense Giants
  • Chapter 5 The Code That Sails: Engineering the Autonomous Hull
  • Chapter 6 Software Over Steel: The Philosophy of Attritable Warfare
  • Chapter 7 The Austin Shipyard: Rapid Prototyping on the Colorado
  • Chapter 8 Ghost Fleets in the Gulf: Early Sea Trials
  • Chapter 9 Swarm Logic: Distributed Operations on the High Seas
  • Chapter 10 The Beltway Gauntlet: Navigating the Pentagon's Procurement Maze
  • Chapter 11 Sandstone, Steel, and Silicon: A Clash of Cultures
  • Chapter 12 Redefining Sea Power: The Navy's Divided Admirals
  • Chapter 13 The Replicator Mandate: Scaling the Drone Navy
  • Chapter 14 The Supply Chain Revolution: COTS Hardware and Marine Robotics
  • Chapter 15 Shadows in the Taiwan Strait: The Deterrence Imperative
  • Chapter 16 Edge Computing at Sea: Autonomy Without Connectivity
  • Chapter 17 Venture Defense: How Sand Hill Road Learned to Love War
  • Chapter 18 Machinists and Coders: The New Maritime Workforce
  • Chapter 19 Kill Webs and Data Links: Integrating with the Manned Fleet
  • Chapter 20 Electronic Warfare and the Silent Hull: Surviving Contested Waters
  • Chapter 21 The Congressional Tug-of-War: Jobs, Districts, and Drones
  • Chapter 22 Red Horizon: China's Unmanned Naval Ambitions
  • Chapter 23 The New Arsenal of Democracy: Manufacturing at Machine Speed
  • Chapter 24 Ethics, Autonomy, and the Fog of Cold Steel
  • Chapter 25 The Horizon Fleet: The Future of Autonomous War at Sea
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Gary U. Williams

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