Overview
- The five-year IDIQ, awarded through the Navy and GSA, carries an initial award up to $54 million with a $71 million ceiling and allows other services to buy the capability.
- Gecko will start by inspecting 18 U.S. Pacific Fleet ships, including destroyers, amphibious warships and littoral combat ships.
- Gecko says its wall-climbing, flying and crawling robots feed data into AI software to create digital twins and flag defects, identifying repairs up to 50 times faster and compressing months of work to days.
- Navy leaders are targeting 80% fleet readiness by 2027 after persistent maintenance backlogs, with NAVSEA reporting 52 ships in repair in January and only 41% completing repairs on time in 2025.
- Gecko operates about 250 robots across government and industry and plans to build 50 to 60 more this year to support scaling of inspections.