Exclusive: A new Hanwha-Havoc team wants to jolt the defense market

Published on October 30, 2025

Hanwha Global Defense and HavocAI are collaborating, bringing together shipbuilding and autonomy expertise they believe will shake up the defense market.

Why it matters: The previously undisclosed partnership could earn Hanwha a stronger stateside foothold and propel the production of Havoc's drone boats.

Driving the news: Executives from both companies are this week in South Korea, where they are getting familiar with each other's shipyard operations and autonomous surface vessel capabilities.

  • "We want to push the bounds of what's possible, and do it very quickly," Michael Coulter, Hanwha Global Defense's chief executive, told Axios.
  • "We're on a global defense journey, and we're committed to growing an American workforce and leveraging all that technology and process from our parent," he said.
  • U.S. shipbuilding capacity "is just insufficient," he added, despite it being "a national security imperative."

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