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Insights

Kyle Durden, CEO, Bergan Marine Systems

Market Signals: Connectivity and Integration Guard’s new Polar Security Cutter, under construction in

Serving customers from inland barges to ocean-going Pascagoula, Mississippi, one of several Arctic-capable ships tankers, Bergan Marine Systems is seeing strong demand now in the pipeline. “It’s exciting,” Durden says. “Any for connected, reliable, and maintainable systems. expansion in ? eet capacity — commercial or defense — “As a former mariner myself, I always look at our products drives innovation, and that’s where we excel.” from the deck,” says Durden. “Customers want systems that As Bergan Marine Systems celebrates its golden anni- are easier to service, integrate seamlessly with other software, versary, Durden insists the company is just getting started.

and provide better visibility into ? eet operations.” “We have a great legacy of products, and we’ll continue

Integration and remote access have become central to support those customers,” he says. “But we’re also ex- themes, especially after the pandemic. “During COVID, panding our digital and connected systems, AI features, we couldn’t always ? y engineers overseas,” he explains. “So analytics, ? eet dashboards.” we developed secure remote-access capabilities that let us He pauses, then sums up Bergan’s mission simply: “We tunnel into ship systems and troubleshoot sensor signals, want to be that trusted provider of critical vessel informa- even radar data, in real time. That’s now standard practice, tion, whether it’s a tried-and-true tank level system or a better for our customers and a more ef? cient use of every- next-generation IoT dashboard.” one’s time.” Durden says collaboration will be key. “We’re teaming

Durden sees strong momentum in the U.S. maritime with new hardware and software partners and will be mak- sector, particularly as government investment in shipbuild- ing announcements soon … it’s an exciting time.” ing and defense programs increases. For a company that began with analog sensors and “The administration’s focus on revitalizing U.S. mari- now delivers real-time, cloud-connected data from vessels time infrastructure aligns perfectly with our capabilities,” worldwide, the transformation is remarkable. But Dur- he says. “Programs like the John Lewis-class ? eet oilers at den’s motivation remains unchanged:

NASSCO have been a cornerstone of our business for de- “I started as a mariner,” he says. “Our mission is to sup- cades. We’ve been on nearly every Navy auxiliary ? eet class port those mariners, to help them work safer, smarter, and built there since the 1990s.” more ef? ciently every day. We’ve been doing it for 50 years,

Bergan is also providing systems for the U.S. Coast and in many ways, we’re just getting started.”