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Hadrian and Lockheed Ink Seven-Year Production Deal
Remember when all of us here in defense tech land were just kind of a footnote when we talked about defense production and the primes? Yeah. Things have changed. Yesterday, new-age manufacturing company Hadrian announced that it’s signed a seven-year agreement with Lockheed Martin to “bring Hadrian’s advanced manufacturing capabilities directly into Lockheed Martin’s Missiles […]
Orqa US and XTEND Land Drone Dominance Program Orders
With the Drone Dominance Program’s Gauntlet II winners announced last month, it was only a matter of time before the big orders started piling up. Yesterday, Orqa US, the American subsidiary of Croatian drone giant Orqa FPV, and XTEND revealed they’ve won $38M and $40.5M contracts, respectively, after strong showings in the second round of […]
Canada’s Dominion Dynamics and Ukraine’s TENCORE Team Up for UGVs
Dominion will manufacture Tencore’s UGV in Canada, integrated with its AuraNet autonomy stack.
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A Q&A with Alex Fink, US CEO of Swarmer
In case you missed it, the infamous Erik Prince and Swarmer’s US CEO Alex Fink are betting on “air defense as a service”—and now they’re putting numbers behind their pitch. This week—just a month after launch—Vectus Air Defense Systems (not to be confused with Prince’s Vectus Global private military and security company) announced plans to […]
A Q+A with Vectus’ Erik Prince
Tectonic sat down with Erik Prince to chat about his new air defense startup, Vectus.
A Q + A with Matt Cronin, Senior National Security Advisor at a16z
If there is one VC fund you know in the defense tech world, it’s probably Andreesen Horowitz—or a16z, as the cool kids say. The firm—which just raised a casual $15B, including $1.176B for its “national interest” (defense and deep tech) focused American Dynamism fund—has backed some of the biggest names in the game, including Anduril, […]
Q + A: A.J. Bertone, Managing Partner, In-Q-Tel
If you’ve been paying attention to the past year of Tectonic (!!), you’ll recognize a sneaky three-letter acronym that pops up on a lot of defense tech cap tables: IQT. For those lucky enough not to be in the know, that stands for In-Q-Tel, a not-for-profit venture fund backed by the US government and investing […]