Defense Team - Business Development Co-Op

At REGENT, we’re on a mission to revolutionize regional transportation between coastal cities. We're not just building vehicles, we're creating a new category of transportation: the Seaglider. These groundbreaking wing-in-ground-effect craft travel just above the water’s surface, combining the speed of an airplane with the low operating costs of a boat. Capable of 180 miles at 180 mph on today's battery tech (and up to 400 miles with next-gen batteries), Seagliders will unlock fast, affordable, and sustainable coastal transit for passengers and cargo - connecting cities, islands, and communities like never before.

Backed by leading investors and powered by a team of passionate, forward-thinking engineers, builders, and operators, we’re now scaling from a breakthrough prototype to full production - and building the team to make it happen.

REGENT is reinventing coastal transportation with the Seaglider, a vessel that flies above the water on a cushion of air, and much of the opportunity to bring that technology to the Defense and government market depends on being able to explain it clearly to the people deciding whether to invest in it. As a Business Development Co-op on the Defense & Government Relations team, you'll help build the written and visual materials that do exactly that: briefs, decks, and proposals that translate what the Seaglider can do into language that resonates with government and defense customers.

This is a part-time, spring-semester role based in Rhode Island, with 10-15 hours a week built around your class schedule.

You won't just be supporting from the sidelines. Over the course of the term, you'll build toward presenting a Defense Deck you helped develop to a real potential customer, and by the end of the co-op you'll have written a proposal for a defense project and worked directly with engineers to translate customer requirements into something they can build against. It's a rare chance to learn how Defense BD actually works from the inside while helping shape how REGENT shows up to the customers who matter most to this mission.

You'll sit within the Defense & Government Relations team, a group focused on connecting REGENT's engineering work to the government and military customers who need it, and one that cares deeply about clarity, precision, and credibility in every piece of customer-facing communication. If you're a sharp writer and confident communicator who's curious about defense, maritime technology, and how a growing company builds its earliest government relationships, you'll find a lot to sink your teeth into here.

• Build Customer-Facing Materials: You'll help create the briefs, memos, and visual materials the team uses to explain Seaglider concepts to government and defense customers.

• Pitch the Defense Deck: By the midpoint of the term, you'll have developed slides yourself and pitched them directly to a potential customer.

• Write a Real Proposal: By the end of the co-op, you'll write a proposal for a defense project aimed at gaining real traction with a customer.

• Translate for Engineers: You'll work to translate customer requirements into language and specifications the engineering team can act on.

• Support Technical Projects: You'll help manage and develop the technical projects that turn Seaglider concepts into material a Defense customer can evaluate and understand.

• Bring Analysis to the Table: You'll use tools like Excel, SQL, or Python to analyze data and build light tooling that supports the team's BD work.

• Learn Defense BD From the Inside: You'll partner closely with the Defense & Government Relations team, picking up how proposals, pitches, and customer relationships actually come together.

• A Spring 2027…