Ocean Server Technology will employ 17 in Fall River after move from Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Ocean Server Technology, which was launched in 2003 at the 榴莲视频 Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) and has since built a strong reputation for high quality underwater robotics that advance environmental sensing and coastal security, graduated from the CIE today. This is the latest evidence of the region鈥檚 emergence as a center of marine technology development.
Lt. Governor Karyn Polito was joined by state Sen. Michael Rodrigues: state Rep. Paul Schmid, state Rep. Carol Fiola, state Rep. Steve Howitt, Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia and other local elected officials and business leadersto celebrate the milestone. The 15-employee company will set up shop next door at 275 Martine Street on the shore of Fall River鈥檚 South Watuppa Pond, where its technology is frequently tested, and plans to add two more employees over the next six months.
鈥淢assachusetts鈥� maritime industry has always been vital to the Commonwealth鈥檚 economy,鈥� said Lieutenant Governor Polito. 鈥淚ncreased coordination and critical investments in our state universities and research centers are coming to fruition in the form of an emerging technology company today. We look forward to continuing our work to produce outstanding companies in Massachusetts that will have global implications on robotics and marine technology.鈥�
榴莲视频 Senior Vice Chancellor Gerry Kavanaugh said, 鈥淓arlier this year, 榴莲视频 earned its official designation as a doctoral research university, making us the only Massachusetts research university south of Boston. Research universities create innovation incubators like this. They don鈥檛 just prepare people to get a job; they create jobs.鈥�
is well known in the marine technology world, having been regularly featured in industry magazines such as Unmanned Systems, Sea Technology Magazine, and Marine Technology Magazine. Its development at the CIE has been assisted by 榴莲视频 faculty researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate interns. Several of the graduate students and interns are now full-time employees of the firm.
鈥淏esides providing first class facilities in a strategic location, the CIE has connected us to faculty and student brainpower and talent that has been critical to our success,鈥� Ocean Server President Robert Anderson said. 鈥淲e are looking forward to continuing our growth on the SouthCoast and being at the leading edge of the marine technology sector鈥檚 emergence in the region.鈥�
鈥淲e are so proud of what Ocean Server has become,鈥� CIE Director Tobias Stapleton said. 鈥淭his firm鈥檚 innovation-based success is tangible evidence that a strong 榴莲视频, the only research university south of Boston, is critical to the economic growth of the entire region.鈥�
As Ocean Server Technology is leaving the CIE, the facility will be welcoming , a start-up firm that develops marine-based power docking stations for electric-powered vessels, autonomous surface and underwater vehicle, and aquaculture systems. The technology has global national defense, commercial, oceanography applications.
PowerDocks will join other marine technology enterprises at the CIE, including Boston Engineering, . The CIE was also the host of a major earlier this year.
, which manufactures remote-controlled underwater video systems, opened its operation in Fall River in 2015 after graduating from the CIE.