It’s a Picogrid party, and everyone’s invited. Today, in an exclusive release to Tectonic, integration startup Picogrid announced that the US Army tapped them to make sure a whole bunch of different sensors, radars, C2 systems, and effectors worked together during a recent sensor-to-shooter counter-drone and force-maneuver exercise at the National Training Center in the […]
Applied Intuition may have cut its teeth in commercial autonomous vehicle software, but the $15B Silicon Valley hotshot is taking the defense world by storm—including on some of the Pentagon’s most ambitious projects. We’re talking Golden Dome, baby. Today, in an exclusive release to Tectonic, Applied Intuition announced that they’ve teamed up with the Department […]
Aviation autonomy is all the rage these days, but Beacon AI is less concerned with automating the piloting part and more focused on all of the brain-draining, paper-pushing stuff pilots and crews have to do before takeoff and in the air. And the Air Force is taking notice. On Wednesday, in an exclusive release to […]
Everywhere you look in NATO, defense tech startups are popping off, but our friendly neighbors up north have (for the most part) stayed out of the spotlight. Dominion Dynamics wants to change that. On Monday, the Canadian startup announced it has raised $15.2M ($21M CAD) in seed funding to develop a persistent multi-domain surveillance and […]
Seasats is making a splash in the unmanned surface vessel (USV) space. Yesterday, California-based USV startup Seasats announced that it’s been awarded a joint $24M contract with the Navy and Marines under the APFIT program to accelerate production and delivery of its Lightfish USVs. This comes on the heels of the company scoring a $89M […]
The Marines have a bunch o’ Bolts heading their way. On Thursday, defense tech poster child Anduril announced that the US Marine Corps placed a $24M order for 600 of the company’s Bolt-M kamikaze drones under the Organic Precision Fires-Light (OPF-L) program, with deliveries expected between 2026 and 2027. Bolt goes boom: Weighing around 15 […]
Looks like at least one RACER has crossed the finish line. On Wednesday, DARPA announced that the Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program, launched in 2021 to develop new vehicle autonomy algorithm technologies, has officially wrapped up. Now, it’s up to the autonomy companies that spun out of it—including Overland AI—to keep […]
Whatever image you have of what batteries look like, forget it. On Tuesday, Miami-based 3D-printed battery startup Material announced it had raised a $7.1M seed round co-led by Outlander VC and Harpoon Ventures. The company is taking aim at a surprisingly persistent problem: Batteries power nearly everything we write about, yet they’re rarely designed for […]
Epirus loves a buzzy demo. In an exclusive release to Tectonic, directed energy counter-drone startup Epirus revealed that a smaller variant of their flagship Leonidas HPM downed a fiber-optic drone at a government test site in December, which the company called the “first known instance of a weaponized electromagnetic interference system defeating a fiber-optic guided […]
Africa might not come to mind as a defense tech hotspot, but a startup founded by two Nigerians in their early twenties is changing that—and catching the eye of the defense tech world’s venture capital heavyweights. Early this morning, Nigerian autonomous systems startup Terra Industries announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that it’s raised […]
