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Aeon Snags $13.8M SOCOM Contract for Shoulder-Fired Zeus Missiles
Business is truly booming in the boom business. Yesterday, Austin-based new-age missile startup Aeon announced that it’s snagged a $13.8M contract to deliver an initial production batch of its software-defined, shoulder-fired Zeus missiles to US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). The deal covers roughly 100 of the systems, expected to be shipped out over the next […]
Pentagon Takes Stake in Neros with $450M OSC Loan
Between a $250M raise, a $500M IDIQ contract under the US Army’s Purpose-Built Attritable System (PBAS) program, and $100M in drone orders through the Drone Dominance Program, it’s been a big-dollar year for Neros. As if that wasn’t enough, the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) is now adding an extra nine figures to Neros’ […]
Oshkosh and Grid Aero Team Up for Logistics UAVs
Back when we started Tectonic, we wondered (out loud, a lot) when the great wave of prime-startup partnerships would come into full swing. It seems, nearly two years on, that we’re officially in the thick of it. Yesterday, contested logistics UAV startup Grid Aero announced that it’s inked an official partnership with Oshkosh Defense (not […]
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A Q+A with Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s Fmr. Defense Minister
An exclusive interview with former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov.
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 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 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, […]