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Anduril Unveils Steelfin Family of Lower-Cost Interceptors
Anduril unveiled a new “family of highly-configurable, mass-producible surface-to-air interceptor missiles.”
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Anduril is Bringing Gecko’s Robo-Inspectors into Arsenal-2
Anduril’s Arsenal-2 shipyard near Baltimore is billed as the Navy’s factory of the future, so it’s only right they bring in the best-of-the-best in new-age manufacturing tech. Two short days after Anduril unveiled the $3.7B, 2M-square-foot mega-factory, Gecko Robotics announced that their wall-crawling robots and critical infrastructure inspection software will be deployed at Arsenal-2 and […]
Shield AI and the US Navy Match $150M Investments in X-BAT Development
The boost brings total public and private funding for Shield AI’s autonomous fighter to a cool $400M.
Interceptor Startup Furientis Raises $25M Seed, Scores First OTA
The interceptor game really is so hot right now. In case you missed it—earlier this week, interceptor startup Furientis announced that it’s raised a $25M seed round led by Benchmark and scored an OTA with the Pentagon to develop its 100-mile-range interceptor vehicle. “Furientis exists to resupply our critical deficiency in defensive munitions,” Furientis Co-Founder […]
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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 […]