Neal Bloom

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Whoa! I'm back from the dead! After being hacked, then apparently account getting deleted, I'm back!
What'd I miss?

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Innovation and stewardship are both long games.

The Clarke Prize celebrates generations of water scientists - and welcomes new people ready to help carry the work forward.

Founded by the Irvine family and continuing forward.

Reflections from this year’s celebration

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@lalovestrump It’s Brent’s and then everything else

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Earlier this summer, Seasats' Lightfish was deployed as part of Exercise Northern Viking 2026 in Iceland, supporting Commander, Task Force 66 in training U.S. and Icelandic Coast Guard operators on unmanned surface vessel operations in the North Atlantic.

Northern Viking 2026 is a joint force and allied live exercise designed to strengthen interoperability and readiness across the Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom gap. As allied ships and aircraft patrolled the Icelandic coastline, Lightfish operators trained on deploying and controlling autonomous surface vessels built to provide persistent maritime domain awareness in all weather and sea conditions.

The Icelandic Coast Guard knows these waters better than anyone. Lightfish gives them the tools to monitor them persistently and autonomously.

Read more through the link in the comments.

#Seasats #Lightfish #NorthernViking2026 #MaritimeDomainAwareness #USV #AutonomousSystems #NATO #GUIK #DefenseTech

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Autonomy needs energy.

We brought together founders building drones, maritime systems, robotics, batteries, and alternative power sources.

The opportunity isn't just better technology. It's connecting the people building it.

The Energy of Autonomy 👇
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@sabhyac267 @Snapchat Looks so good! You should come to our San Diego AgX hackathon in November!
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Ecosystems don't build themselves.
Four years of building a water career program taught me something about technical talent, hardtech, and regional innovation.
The event is one day. The ecosystem is what remains.

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[Seasats @seasats]

Today, Seasats marked its sixth anniversary with a ribbon cutting at its new 60,000-square-foot San Diego headquarters.

Seasats has grown around a clear mission: closing maritime blind spots. This facility expands capacity to deliver persistent maritime awareness for defense, border protection, and commercial missions.

That growth means more high-skill jobs here in San Diego and more production capability to support customers around the world. It reinforces this city’s leading role in building the maritime autonomous systems of the future.

Thank you to the team, families, customers, and partners who made this milestone possible.

#Seasats #MaritimeAutonomy #DefenseTech #SanDiego

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AI is about to learn an old infrastructure lesson: being technically right isn’t enough.
I watched water engineers learn that deployment requires trust + communication.
Now data centers - and much of hard tech - are learning the same thing.

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@E_Bruxxx It’s totally true. Too many people playing startup theater, esp in smaller markets.

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@klashsarma https://t.co/CPFcJeebRu

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Went behind the scenes at the Safari Park with AgX.
Seeds. Soil. Water. Bamboo. Manure. Lots of problems worth solving.

Next: put farmers + scientists + engineers + founders together to solve them.
AgX Hackathon → Nov 5

Join us - link in bio

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@erik_stiebel Still weird to me to put 8 San Diego companies on this map and ignore 62 more

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[Seasats @seasats]

Meet Mike Flanigan, Seasats’ CEO and co-founder.

Flanigan and his partners founded Seasats after seeing the early maritime robotics industry fall short of its promises to customers. Drawing on his deep experience in USVs, cross-disciplinary engineering, and automated manufacturing, he saw a better way—and an opportunity to deliver functional, reliable systems that solve real problems: ocean autonomy that works.

As CEO, Mike leads with deep technical knowledge, high standards, humility, and humor. Since the company’s inception, he has led team growth to over 100 people, closed multiple funding rounds, and built an organization that is living the promise of deploying ocean autonomy daily around the globe.

Asked what he values most about Seasats, Mike points to its people: “It’s hard to think of something more rewarding than working on an important mission with great people.”

#DefenseTech #MaritimeAutonomy #AutonomousSystems #Leadership #Seasats #MeetTheTeam

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@BrianNorgard Come join for some toro at Herb and Wood?

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@jburnmurdoch Do PISA test scores have a connection to career success or long term employability? Or even able to get a job one day?

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@ChadThompson @fredmgrier The new self driving taxi fleet by Tesla @robotaxi

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RSVP to Oct event here https://t.co/QCXMn6ldMb

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What a day to hike and meet fellow founders.

Join us on Oct 2 at 8am for the next one :)

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