Small enough to launch. Affordable enough to risk.

RiverScout

RiverScout is a man-portable Autonomous Surface Vessel (ASV) built for brown-water surveillance and reconnaissance, run through a tactical robotic controller (TRC). It exists to put more eyes on the water without putting more people at risk: a low-cost, expendable asset that lets a command reduce risk by increasing the number of assets in play, not the number of operators.

See RiverScout in Action

A low-cost hull moving through brown water on its own, sensing, navigating, and reporting back, built to be risked on a mission a larger, more expensive asset wouldn't take.

Filmed during an actual operation, not a test-tank demo. This is what a two-person launch looks like in the field.

Our Mission

RiverScout isn't just a hull. It's a command-and-control package built on open standards, so it plugs into the systems an operator already runs instead of asking them to learn a new one.

Most Tactical USVs Need a Crane. This One Needs Two People.

The tactical end of the USV market runs long and heavy: thirty-plus feet, a trailer, a launch crew. RiverScout skips all of it. It goes in the water wherever the mission needs eyes, launched by the people already there, not staged days in advance by a logistics team.

Built to Be Tested, Not Just Fielded

RiverScout doubles as a payload and autonomy testbed for research and test and evaluation programs. It's cheap enough to risk on an experiment and open enough to carry a payload nobody's tried yet, which is exactly what a testbed is supposed to be.

RiverScout is one of several platforms in our Autonomous Solutions practice.

Full specifications and integration details are in the brochure below, built for program offices and test directors who need the numbers before they need the demo.

Download the Brochure