Mega-giant data centers, in case you hadn’t noticed, are popping up everywhere these days. But edge computing startup Armada isn’t interested in the supersizing of it all—they want to shrink data centers down and take them to all the far-flung places where the military needs extra processing power. And it seems like the people with […]
Our friends across the pond are pretty big on building up sovereign defense capabilities these days, and Rheinmetall has moved at lightning speed to snap up the lion’s share of that European military spending boom. Today, the German defense giant and Dutch drone startup Destinus unveiled a new, co-produced long-range deep-strike cruise missile called the […]
The Aussies are coming, y’all. This morning, Arkeus, an Australian defense startup building AI-powered sensing systems for drones, raised $18M in a Series A led by Aussie VC QIC Ventures to expand its global footprint, including in the US. “We are a little bit under the radar, if you can excuse the pun for a […]
The Pentagon wants more bang for its buck, and is looking to five “disruptive new entrants” to get it. Under a framework agreement announced by the Pentagon yesterday, four companies—Anduril, CoAspire, Leidos, and Zone 5—will deliver over 10,000 cruise missiles over three years under the Low-Cost Containerized Missiles (LCCM) program, while Castelion will deliver a […]
We’ve talked a lot about quadcopters used as flying bombs, but turns out they’re pretty helpful for diffusing them, too. Under a “multi-million dollar” contract, the Air Force’s elite Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) units are getting their hands on Skydio’s fan favorite X10D Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) small-UAS, the company exclusively revealed to Tectonic […]
The rise of the robots is truly upon us. Yesterday, Rhode Island-based autonomy darling HavocAI (known primarily for its USVs) announced that it’s raised a $100M Series A led by Cobalt Capital, which the company says it will use to push further into multi-domain robotics. Single-domain is soooo 2025. “We captured the maritime space already,” […]
The energy around directed energy keeps amping up. (Again, forgive us.) Late last week, the Pentagon’s Army-led counter-drone Joint Interagency Task Force 401 (JIATF-401) announced five military bases selected for a directed-energy counter-UAS pilot program, focused on deploying directed-energy tech, including “high-energy lasers” and “high-powered microwave systems,” to defend the airspace from the ever-present drone […]
Up until recently, satellite imagery was the domain of well-funded intelligence services and militaries. These days, a range of commercial actors are filling OSINT social media feeds and reporting with near-real-time updates from their eyes in the skies over Ukraine, Iran, the South China Sea, and wherever else the US government is keeping tabs on. […]
Defense tech isn’t all drone swarms and software. Sometimes the basic, unsexy stuff is the most important, especially when you live on the doorstep of Europe’s largest land war since WWII. Yesterday, SWEBAL, a Swedish startup founded by a fintech entrepreneur (totally normal career path), announced that it raised €30M to change the way Europe […]
Another day, another defense tech funding round. Yesterday, Darkhive announced that it’s raised $30M in a Series B funding round led by RTX Ventures to deliver on the $49.7M APFIT contract—the program’s highest single award to date—that the San Antonio-based startup won in December and went public with in March. Hive hype: Founded in 2021, […]
