The ascendant ‘unmanned economy’ is flooded with single-point autonomy: one drone, one use case, one domain, one environment. But tomorrow’s threats demand systems that can think, act, and adapt as a team. Too many of today’s autonomous systems break down in denied environments, require too much training or too many touch points, and fail to scale under operational complexity.
Full-stack integration unleashes coordinated autonomy.
With the naval domain as their beachhead, HAVOC has already deployed 30+ autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) with over 7,000 hours of real-world autonomy logged in less than 18 months. Their core platform, HavocOS, enables swarming logic, cross-domain tasking, and machine-to-machine coordination with zero operator overhead. Whether on sea, land, air, or space HAVOC makes unmanned systems deployable, trainable, and intelligent—and all this at scale.
More Thoughts From the Team at BVVC:
“There have been moments in military history where the right capability, fielded at the right time, changes not just how we fight, but what we believe is possible. HAVOC is that moment for defense software. We didn’t invest in a shipbuilding company. We invested in a new command architecture. It is absurd that in 2025, autonomy still requires a PhD to deploy and breaks the moment you lose a signal. HAVOC built something that works the way war actually works: fast, contested, denied, but always in pursuit of lockstep coordination. Their system doesn’t need constant connectivity or perfect conditions. As their name hints, their tools thrive in the chaos.
The HAVOC team understands that friction kills speed. Thankfully, HAVOC erases it. In an era when threats are distributed, autonomous systems must be interoperable by default and operable by anyone. HAVOC lets a 19-year-old soldier swarm 25 vessels from a laptop. This is the kind of autonomy America needs. It’s the kind that works like a doctrine; not brittle, not gimmicky, not lab-bound. HAVOC’s system is building muscle memory for the machines: plays, behaviors, logic that adapts, endures, and synthesizes. HAVOC is laying the foundational infrastructure for the next 50 years of deterrence. This is what it looks like to rebuild American defense from first principles: fast, scrappy, relentlessly democratic, and uncompromisingly real.”
“Our country has no ability to fight in the Pacific in the coming war. Even if you throw a trillion dollars into shipbuilding, those ships will come out too late. The only answer is autonomous vessels.
We realized most of the existing players weren’t listening to the DoD when they said, ‘We need thousands of autonomous assets—and we need them in the next two years.’ They were just building one or two remote control boats. So we built twelve. Then we built forty-two. Because autonomy isn’t a demo. It’s a doctrine. And it only matters if you can deploy it at scale.”
“We view the vessel as just a component — 5% of the tech stack. The real product is the autonomy. We knew if we started with a big boat, all we’d build is one big boat—and that wasn’t the game. If the game is software, then you need 10 to 30 vessels you can operate with a team of five. That’s why we started with 14-footers—perfectly sized for rapid, repeatable launch—and they run the exact same software as our 38-footers. So when we scale up, we already know it works.”
– Paul Lwin, CEO and Co-Founder