The DDP plans to order 60,000 FPV drones from top performers in Gauntlet 2, including 14,000 from Neros.
It’s a boom time in the boom business, especially for the biggest purveyor of boom and zoom in the game. Yesterday, defense giant Lockheed Martin announced that it won a $1.2B IDIQ contract for the second increment of the Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM), which are replacing the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) in the Army’s […]
The drone-boat world is getting busier and busier, but a partnership between one of the world’s largest shipbuilders and a new, relatively unknown American maritime autonomy company is betting they can rise to the top. After formally teaming up in April, Hanwha Defense USA, the US subsidiary of Korean defense giant Hanwha, and super sneaky […]
Germanium—dominated by China—is used in thermal-imaging systems, ISR sensors, missile seekers, and more.
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 […]
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 […]
