Ondas had quite the week at Eurosatory. At the defense expo in Paris, the US-based autonomous systems roll-up company unveiled a slew of new tech under its “Autonomy at First Contact” vision, including a ground robot, an autonomous defense orchestration system, and a couple of new counter-drone systems. In that broader announcement, Ondas hinted that […]
Forget everything we’ve said about contested logistics being unsexy—it’s about as hot as it gets right now, and Rune’s carving quite a nice niche for itself in the space. In an exclusive release to Tectonic this morning, the contested logistics and frontline sustainment AI startup announced its biggest win yet: A five-year, $99M contract with […]
Powerus is making power plays all over the place. Yesterday, the Florida-based drone company announced that it’s secured a $30M strategic investment from drone components-maker Unusual Machines, “[strengthening] a working relationship already in place between the two companies.” Power up: To back things up, Powerus, founded last year, has made headline after headline for a […]
The Reindustrialize vibes are high, and business is booming for the companies building the factories of the future. At the eponymous conference in Detroit yesterday, defense-focused advanced manufacturing startup Divergent came out swinging with two big announcements: They’ve designed and built a massive 26-foot-tall metal 3D printer called Monolith One, and they’re putting 64 of […]
Hot off a $300M Series C at a nearly $2B valuation and a $50M acquisition of propulsion system and solid rocket motor-maker Exquadrum, Mach Industries is already making moves to roll out more boomy and zoomy tech. The California-based startup announced this morning that it won a contract for the DIU’s Runway Independent Maritime & […]
As this week’s buzzworthy drone boat rescue operation showed, Saronic’s autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) have a lot of potential uses. For the company’s biggest and baddest one—the 180-foot Marauder—that includes kitting it out with some serious firepower, courtesy of Castelion. Yesterday, the two companies announced they’re teaming up to integrate Castelion’s Blackbeard low-cost hypersonic weapon […]
Unlike in the UK, it’s Christmas in June for the US defense world. Yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee released its $1T FY2027 defense spending bill—in line with the Pentagon’s request—and there’s a lot to get excited about for our friends in the startup world (and of course, the primes, too). That eye-watering number doesn’t include […]
In case Operation Jailbreak, ongoing NGC2 exercises, and the Pentagon’s all-encompassing Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) initiative didn’t give it away, integration is quickly becoming the word of the year in the defense world. Logistics is one of the areas where the whole “making sure all this new software coming onto the scene works […]
The era of France’s most famous exports being wine, cheese, and Spurs phenoms may be coming to an end, at least if Alta Ares has anything to do with it. This morning, the French counter-drone software and hardware startup announced that it’s raised a €50M ($58M) Series A led by Air Street Capital, alongside Cherry […]
The defense tech unicorn club just got its newest member. On Friday, Austin-based counter-drone startup Allen Control Systems announced a $200M Series B led by Smash Capital at a whopping $2.2B post-money valuation—a massive jump from its $170M Series A valuation last year. The drone-downing dollars really do just keep on coming. Ribbit ribbit: A […]
