Company Profile

Navatek, Ltd. was founded in 1979 and operates out of offices in Honolulu, Hawaii with 47 employees. It is a privately-owned subsidiary of Pacific Marine, founded in 1944, with 350 employees and annual revenues of $73 million. Parent company Pacific Marine also owns Pacific Shipyards International LLC, the State’s largest commercial ship repair and construction company. Navatek's primary government customer is the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR).

Since its founding, Navatek has been a leader in researching, developing and testing at sea innovative, advanced ship hull designs and associated technologies. The company designed and built the first commercial U. S. Coast Guard-certified SWATH. Later, Navatek teamed with Lockheed Martin to jointly build SLICE, a 30 knot, 105-foot fast SWATH hull form variant.

MIDFOIL was the first vessel to demonstrate the benefits of Navatek’s patented lifting body technology. Since then, Navatek has demonstrated the benefits of its research and technology in a number of technology demonstrators. These include HYSWAC^®, HDV^®, WAVERIDER^®, and BLB^®.

Our research team has world-class expertise in hydrodynamics and advanced ship hull design, as well as experience with all aspects of vessel design. We maintain our own shipyard facilities and demonstration vessels supported by a staff whose breadth of experience spans vessel design, ship and boat construction, and commercial vessel operations. Leveraging it's hydrodynamics and ocean engineering expertise, Navatek also partners with selected technology companies to research and develop novel ocean platform and wave buoy power technologies.