If you work in the ever-growing unmanned surface vessel (USV) world and are worrying about scale, you might want to look away. On Tuesday, shipbuilding giant Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) announced a new family of ROMULUS USVs—and that the fleet’s flagship is already under construction. Looks like the primes were paying attention to Saronic’s $392M […]
If you thought the defense tech world on this side of the pond comes to a standstill during DSEI, think again. This morning, integration startup Picogrid announced a $3.2M Air Force contract win to bring their Legion software and Helios hardware to help the Air Force’s growing number of autonomous systems play nice. Picogrid has […]
With the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) trade show kicking off in London, we all knew it would be a big week for European defense tech. On Monday, German drone startup Quantum Systems got the ball rolling by announcing a €50M investment in the UK over the next five years. That’s the tea. Quantum […]
Ask anyone in defense tech, and they’ll all agree that drones are great. The only issue is that there are too many different types of them to make them work together. Well, Auterion might have the solution. On Wednesday, German-American autonomy startup Auterion launched Nemyx, a new swarm strike software that allows different drone models […]
When Tectonic covered drone boat startup Kraken’s partnership with German shipbuilder NVL last week, the company’s CEO Mal Crease said that software is becoming “increasingly important” and hinted at some partnerships in the works. Well, we now know why he was being coy. On Thursday, Kraken teamed up with autonomy software development juggernaut Applied Intuition […]
It’s a big day for partnerships in the defense tech world. On Thursday, white-hot military logistics startup Rune Technologies—fresh off a $24M Series A—announced a partnership with supply chain visualization company Altana to expand Rune’s defense sustainment software capabilities. Friendship really does make the world go round. Making unsexy sexy: Rune, led by Anduril alums […]
Everyone loves a good competition, and NATO DIANA just dropped its latest leaderboard. On Thursday, the alliance’s defense tech accelerator announced the 15 winners of their 2025 pitch competition. The companies span ten countries and a range of sectors, and NATO’s betting that they’re just what the alliance needs to accelerate into the future. From […]
Well, we hope Congress had a restful summer recess, because things are about to get very busy for the military-minded members (and we’re not talking about yesterday’s apparent War on Drugs redux). On Tuesday, with the fiscal year kicking off next month, Congress returned to make some big spending decisions (lest we forget about the […]
Death, taxes, and the primes hopping on the drone hype train. On Friday, L3Harris Technologies announced a “new Counter-Unmanned Systems (C-UxS) initiative” to “overcome unmanned threats across the air, land and sea domains.” Welcome to the club. The company said the “new effort provides expanded and customized C-UxS offerings by combining existing solutions with other […]
One cat, two cat, Red Cat, Blue…Ops? (Sorry.) Earlier this week, aerial drone-maker Red Cat Holdings ($RCAT) announced the launch of a maritime division called Blue Ops, diving headfirst into the ever-growing unmanned surface vehicle (USV) space. Maritime autonomy, all the rage, et cetera, et cetera. Sky to sea: So far, Red Cat’s eyes have […]
