Well, looks like everybody really is getting into the defense tech VC game. Yesterday, at the US Army Demand Signal Forum in DC, SecArmy Dan Driscoll officially unveiled a new innovation program called Fuze, designed to better scale commercial products from prototypes to programs of record. Driscoll (a former VC and investment banker himself) said […]
Well, things certainly haven’t calmed down after a barrage of Russian drones flew deep into Polish airspace last week. Over the weekend, Romania became the second NATO member to ring the alarm bells and scramble jets after a Russian drone was detected and intercepted near the border with Ukraine. Romania’s defense minister called the incursion […]
Well, we hope everyone has had a few decent nights’ sleep since DSEI wrapped on Friday and that our friends in London are enjoying the return of the Tube. (If you don’t understand why this is such a big deal, bless you.) With the weekend behind us (and Trump planned to hop across the pond […]
The mash-ups continue during DSEI week. Yesterday, Estonia-based missile startup Frankenburg Technologies announced that it’s teamed up with NiDAR c-UAS and surveillance company MARSS to integrate Frankenburg’s missiles into MARSS’ C4 platform. The goal, according to the two companies, is to build a “layered defence solution that combines affordability, scalability, and cutting-edge AI to protect […]
Welp, Anduril is back for more—and this time, in a different hemisphere. In case you missed it, on Tuesday, the defense tech darling announced that its Australian branch has been awarded a $1.12B ($1.7B) contract to deliver a fleet of its Ghost Shark SSK XL autonomous submarine. This is officially Anduril’s first international program of […]
Personally, we would give a lot to be a fly on the wall in the early days of the Defense Innovation Unit (RIP Unit X). Luckily, we know a guy who was there. Enrique Oti—apparently referred to intermittently as “Software Jesus of the Air Force”—was one of the co-founders of DIU, and for much of […]
Looks like Anduril is doubling down on its mixed reality roots. Yesterday, the defense tech giant confirmed that it’s scored a $159M US Army contract to prototype a night vision and mixed reality system as part of the Soldier Borne Mission Command (SBMC) program, the successor to IVAS. The company said in a statement that […]
Biiiiig day for collabs. This morning, Germany-based defense tech giant Helsing announced that it’s teaming up with ground autonomy company ARX Robotics to “develop an AI-based reconnaissance and strike network for European defence.” The two companies say they will cooperate in Ukraine, as well as on projects in the UK, Germany, and other European countries. […]
Some people like to take things slow. Other people—like Mal Crease—prefer everything at full throttle. The founder and CEO of USV company Kraken Technology came into defense from high-speed boat racing in 2020, and has brought the same obsession with speed and performance that once helped him break world records to the world of unmanned […]
Well, it’s shaping up to be quite the week in European defense. This morning, “defense-as-a-service” company Tiberius Aerospace announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that it has raised a $4.5M founders’ round, backed by Never Lift Ventures, Blacklake, firedrop VC, Beaten Zone Ventures, and other strategic investors. Just last week, the company also announced […]
