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Saronic CEO: China Built 1,000 Ships. America Built 5.

2026-09-08 · 2 company · 4 thematic
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Founder and CEO of Saronic, an autonomous maritime drone company building a $3.2B next-generation shipyard in Brownsville, Texas to restore US shipbuilding capacity for national security.

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