Barratt Dewey

Exclusive: Epirus Snags $18M Army Contract to Take Leonidas Mobile

Lasers are all the rage right now, but that doesn’t mean the Army’s lost sight of other forms of directed energy. This morning, Epirus announced it’s secured a $18M contract with the Army’s PAE Fires to make its flagship drone-zapping high-powered microwave (HPM) system, Leonidas, mobile and adaptable to different vehicle platforms.  Fry ‘em: As […]

Barratt Dewey
PentagonTech

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 […]

Tech

Heaviside Unveils TYR Loitering Munition 

The go-boom side of defense tech kicked off AUSA with a bang. (Sorry.) Day One of the Army’s annual arms expo was jam-packed with a whole bunch of new boom-and-zoom tech, from ballistic missile interceptors (courtesy of Anduril and Lockheed) to next-gen howitzers.  Heaviside Industries, though, made a splash on the small-and-speedy side of the […]

Tech

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 […]

PentagonTech

Ursa Major Lands $137M to Develop Solid Rocket Motors for Navy Missiles

After years of inertia, the long-consolidated and constrained solid rocket motor (SRM) industry seems to be finally being dragged into the future by a few startups, some fancy advanced manufacturing tech, and a military desperate to shore up its shrinking munitions stockpile. And now, it looks like the Navy is making a serious bet on […]

Investment

Exclusive: Guided Glide Bomb Startup Aventra Raises $17.5M 

Aventra has had a busy, busy year. Since coming out stealth with a $3.5M seed round last October, the Virginia-based startup has delivered hundreds of its high-altitude balloon-dropped glide bombs to US and NATO customers, doubled revenue (that’s production revenue, not RDT&E funding), and raised a nice chunk of new capital—$17.5M, to be exact, Aventra […]