As this week’s buzzworthy drone boat rescue operation showed, Saronic’s autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) have a lot of potential uses. For the company’s biggest and baddest one—the 180-foot Marauder—that includes kitting it out with some serious firepower, courtesy of Castelion. Yesterday, the two companies announced they’re teaming up to integrate Castelion’s Blackbeard low-cost hypersonic weapon […]
Unlike in the UK, it’s Christmas in June for the US defense world. Yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee released its $1T FY2027 defense spending bill—in line with the Pentagon’s request—and there’s a lot to get excited about for our friends in the startup world (and of course, the primes, too). That eye-watering number doesn’t include […]
In case Operation Jailbreak, ongoing NGC2 exercises, and the Pentagon’s all-encompassing Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) initiative didn’t give it away, integration is quickly becoming the word of the year in the defense world. Logistics is one of the areas where the whole “making sure all this new software coming onto the scene works […]
The era of France’s most famous exports being wine, cheese, and Spurs phenoms may be coming to an end, at least if Alta Ares has anything to do with it. This morning, the French counter-drone software and hardware startup announced that it’s raised a €50M ($58M) Series A led by Air Street Capital, alongside Cherry […]
The defense tech unicorn club just got its newest member. On Friday, Austin-based counter-drone startup Allen Control Systems announced a $200M Series B led by Smash Capital at a whopping $2.2B post-money valuation—a massive jump from its $170M Series A valuation last year. The drone-downing dollars really do just keep on coming. Ribbit ribbit: A […]
When the Department of Energy launched the Reactor Pilot Program last June, it set a July 4, 2026, target for startups to switch on their microreactors and hit criticality—when a nuclear fission chain reaction becomes self-sustaining. Antares, an LA-based space and defense-focused nuclear startup, beat that deadline by a month. Yesterday, the company reached initial […]
Turns out that a whole lot of global instability is blowing the IPO window wide open for defense companies. Applied Aerospace & Defense—a Huntsville, Alabama-based, PE-backed defense and space subsystem manufacturer—went public on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday, raising $650M in its IPO and valuing the company at $3.25B after pricing shares near the […]
We write about drones, self-guided missiles, robots, and all of the other tech taking over the battlefield of the future every day. What we write about less are the overlooked-but-critical subcomponents inside each of them. Ya know, the stuff that actually makes them work. A big part of that is because there aren’t a whole […]
A formal US-Ukraine drone deal has yet to be finalized, but that hasn’t stopped companies from inking partnerships of their own. In an exclusive release to Tectonic this morning, US-based drone company Powerus and US-Ukrainian UAV software company Swarmer announced a partnership to explore integrating Swarmer’s swarming tech with Powerus’ “air and maritime platforms, mission […]
If you’ve taken a look at the summer events calendar and are worried about how hostile drones could throw a wrench into all of the FIFA World Cup and America 250 festivities, you’re not alone. The big players in public safety are, too, and they’re making some money moves to make sure it all goes […]
