Hullproof is dual-use by construction. The same footage- agnostic, VLM-based condition-intelligence engine serves commercial fleets and naval / defense assets on one CoatingPassport schema, one audit trail, one open-standard output. Nothing is bolted on — naval_hull is simply one more vertical.
The VLM that reads biofouling on a container hull reads the same corrosion, coating breakdown, and structural defects on a naval hull. CoatingPassport doesn't branch on civilian-vs-military — asset_type 'naval_hull' is one more vertical on the same schema. No parallel codebase, no separate model.
Defense procurement demands traceability: every claim back to source frames, every inference tagged with AI model version, every decision reviewable. Hullproof built this for EU AI Act compliance — it is exactly the evidentiary standard defense acquisition asks for.
Navies operate AUVs (Kongsberg HUGIN), work-class ROVs, ship-husbandry divers, and hull-crawling robots. Hullproof reads footage from all of them — no hardware coupling. The same ingest path serves a commercial drydock and a naval base.
Defense data cannot always leave national boundaries. The core inference engine is packageable as an edge / on-premise container (CLAUDE.md §10E). CoatingPassport JSON is an open standard — no vendor lock-in on the data itself.
Frigates, corvettes, submarines, support vessels. Coating + corrosion + biofouling + structural condition. Same severity calibration as commercial hulls, NATO standards on request.
Sensor arrays, seabed infrastructure, harbor-defense installations. ROV / AUV footage in, structured CoatingPassport out.
Quays, jetties, dry docks, breakwaters serving defense ports. Concrete + steel marine-exposure condition assessment.
Critical undersea infrastructure protection — condition baselines + drift detection for cables and pipelines of strategic importance.
Hullproof maps cleanly onto allied defense-export pathways (Innovasjon Norge / FFI / NADIC programs). Where the fit already sits:
Export-control note: dual-use technology may fall under Norwegian export-control regulation (Utenriksdepartementet) and, for US-market activity, ITAR / EAR. Hullproof treats export-control classification as a per-engagement step with the customer and the relevant authority.
Naval sustainment commands, defense primes, and critical- infrastructure operators — the dual-use engagement is platform-tier, co-developed with your assurance + security team, sovereign-deployable where required.