JASON HECKATHORN

ENTREPRENEUR AND THE PROGRAM MANAGER LOCKHEED MARTIN AQUACULTURE BUSINESS

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Velella Sustainably Farming the Open Ocean

Jason Heckathorn Aquaculture Program Manager

jason.w.heckathorn@lmco.com

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Jumping In

Photographers view from the cage…

…my view from the boat.

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Are you surprised…

A Changing Perspective

Core: Traditional Defense

Example: F-35

Global Security

Emerging: Food Security

Example: Mobile Fish Pen

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The Origin and Challenge

Population

Available Land

Fresh Water

Per Capita

Seafood

Consumtpion

Wild Capture

So why not just farm fish

in the middle of the

ocean?

It’s Hard

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Concept

Wouldn’t it be great if robots just farmed the fish

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Back to the Plank…

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The Results

Velella • Kampachi Farms Partnership

• Operational Unanchored Net Pen

• Autonomous Control

Aquaculture • No detectable foot print

• Growout at 2x speed

• Feed Conversion 25% lower

• Survival 98% (vs 85% moored)

• New way of solving the challenge

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Looking Forward

Global Commercialization

through Franchise Model

Omani Franchise

Next Generation Solution

Provides Incremental

Adoption Approach

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Blue is the new Green!