Saronic may be near-synonymous with futuristic drone boats, but the US Navy sees something different: A shipbuilder with rapidly expanding capacity, a growing workforce, and a solid balance sheet. There aren’t many others. Yesterday, the Navy awarded the autonomous surface vessel (ASV) hotshot, alongside legacy shipbuilders Conrad Shipyard of Texas and Master Boat Builders of […]
Turns out loyal wingmen aren’t just for fighter jets. (Though, if they’re on the ground, what should we be calling them? Pls reply with suggestions.) Yesterday, European UGV darling ARX Robotics (the UK branch) and General Dynamics announced that they’re teaming up to build an autonomous “wingman” capability (again, new naming suggestions welcome) for the […]
The summer of love for the primes and the startups is taking on a new shape. Yesterday, hypersonic aircraft startup Hermeus and RTX’s subsidiary and engine-making giant Pratt & Whitney announced a licensing deal that sets the stage for Hermeus to start producing Pratt’s F100 jet engine, which powers both Hermeus’ Quarterhorse supersonic unmanned aircraft […]
Castelion was awarded a contract worth up to $200M under the Navy’s MACE program.
If you thought Anduril and General Atomics were running away in the CCA race, think again. The biggest dawg in the defense world isn’t giving up that easily. At the AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber conference yesterday, Lockheed Martin unveiled a full-scale model of its Vectis collaborative combat aircraft (CCA), along with two big announcements: […]
The Air Force plans to ultimately field at least 180 MMA drones.
Have any last-minute beach trips planned this summer? Havoc does, and it’s a long way from its home in Rhode Island. At a signing ceremony at the autonomy startup’s Providence headquarters yesterday, USV-turned-all-domain-autonomy company Havoc inked a deal with Taiwanese shipbuilding giant CSBC to integrate Havoc’s collaborative autonomy software with CSBC’s unmanned surface vessels in […]
The raise brings Mach’s total funding to over $1B.
We have a tendency around here to say that everyone loves a tiny plane. Well, as it turns out, there’s a lot of love for big ones, too. Bay Area-based Poseidon Aerospace raised $60M in a Series A to fund flight testing and production of its cargo drone, Egret, and accelerate development of its seafaring […]
Question: What do you get when you combine “maritime is all the rage” with “unsexy is the new sexy”? Answer: Bulwark Dynamics, an unmanned surface vessel startup laser-focused on contested logistics. That pitch has caught the eye of some early backers. This morning, the California-based maritime logistics startup announced $6.8M in seed funding to ramp […]
