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Introducing the Quickfish, our new high-speed, long-endurance ASV. It's already been proven in a multi-day U.S. Navy exercise, where the Quickfish reached speeds over 35 knots while demonstrating reliable performance, payload modularity, and intuitive autonomy interfaces. With multi-week loiter endurance, a UAV launch bay, and a hull designed for manufacturing at scale, the Quickfish expands Seasats’ mission from persistent sensing to rapid response — empowering defense and research partners alike. As CEO Mike Flanigan puts it: “Our customers love how Lightfish USVs provide multi-month sensing capabilities, but they still need to respond to potential threats with manned assets. Building the Quickfish to provide an intercept capability was a natural extension.” Learn more about how Seasats is redefining maritime autonomy: link in comments. #Seasats #Autonomy #ASV #DefenseInnovation #MaritimeSecurity

Thank you to everyone who joined us today for the official grand opening of Factory One! Factory One represents a significant step change in American satellite manufacturing, eliminating the satellite production bottleneck and unlocking critical production capacity for Western governments and key commercial companies to maintain a lead in the New Space Race. With a maximum annual production capacity of over 200 satellites per year, Factory One is rapidly scaling production of Apex’s productized satellite platforms — Aries, Nova, and Comet. Our co-founders, Ian Cinnamon and Maximilian Benassi, had the honor of cutting the ribbon alongside Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr, who shared his remarks on how the FCC plans to further accelerate American space innovation — and unleash a new wave of progress across the U.S. space industrial base. See the link in the comments to hear the full remarks from Ian Cinnamon and Chairman Carr!

For all those SBIR skeptics out there, this one’s for you. In an exclusive release to Tectonic, San Diego-based small unmanned surface vessel (sUSV) startup Seasats announced today that it’s snagged an $89M ceiling SBIR Phase 3 indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract with the Navy to deliver its Lightfish USVs to the Marine Corps. https://lnkd.in/dK3H9jhb

DIY data processing solutions work — until their maintenance costs eclipse their value. We’re proud that thousands of teams run production systems on Unstructured OSS. That’s why we open-sourced it in the first place. Over the years, we’ve seen a clear pattern emerge. Teams start strong with DIY pipelines built on OSS: prototypes succeed, workflows get automated, and RAG pipelines begin powering real applications. But as usage grows — more documents, more complexity, more enterprise requirements — maintaining these systems quietly become many full-time jobs. Teams find themselves spending cycles on orchestration, retries, scaling, and troubleshooting, rather than building the features that differentiate their product. From helping hundreds of customers navigate this transition, one lesson stands out: knowing when to consider managed infrastructure isn’t about whether OSS works — it’s about recognizing when your engineering effort could be better spent elsewhere. Managed infrastructure allows teams to focus on delivering value while still benefiting from the base capabilities OSS provides, with the added advantage of continuous improvements, advanced parsing, extensive metadata enrichment features, and more, all handled by a team of experts. In our upcoming webinar, we’ll share these signals and lessons in more detail, helping you decide when it’s time to move from OSS to the Unstructured ETL+ platform: When to Move from Open Source to the Unstructured ETL+ Platform https://lnkd.in/gwwqkXFM