The interceptor game really is so hot right now. In case you missed it—earlier this week, interceptor startup Furientis announced that it’s raised a $25M seed round led by Benchmark and scored an OTA with the Pentagon to develop its 100-mile-range interceptor vehicle. “Furientis exists to resupply our critical deficiency in defensive munitions,” Furientis Co-Founder […]
In case you haven’t had a keen eye trained on Ukraine this summer, deep strike is quite the hot topic right now. Basically, companies like Fire Point have shown that lower-cost, autonomous deep strike weapons (like, with ranges well above 200 kilometers) can inflict oodles of damage deep in adversarial territory—especially when you train them […]
Damn. The Navy really is on quite the spending spree. This morning, New Mexico-based solid rocket motor (among much else) company X-Bow Systems announced that it’s been awarded a prototype agreement with the Navy worth $69.7M to “develop and qualify a solid rocket motor booster for a key U.S. Navy next-generation weapon.” An X-Bow spokesperson […]
We spend a lot of time here at Tectonic talking about the baby-tank flavor of robots, but robots of the humanoid variety get a whole lot less airtime. That changes today. This morning, Germany-based humanoid robot company Minerva Humanoids (fitting) emerged from stealth with $10M in pre-seed funding led by General Catalyst. The company’s robot—called […]
Military AI is going on a little Eurotrip, y’all. This morning, AI-for-defense hotshot Striveworks announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that it’s scored a $9.75M contract with the US Army in support of Task Force RAVEN, the “Army effort to put AI agents to work in European operations.” Under the contract, US soldiers in […]
Looks like the operators are going high-tech, y’all. This morning, peer-to-peer data transfer company Ditto announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that it scored a $17M APFIT contract with USSOCOM to “[field the] Ditto platform across USSOCOM, enabling real-time data sharing between humans and autonomous systems operating at the tactical edge.” In real terms? […]
The two companies have worked together “for several years,” Anduril’s maritime strategy chief told Tectonic.
Tectonic met with the people at the heart of Ukraine’s defense tech industry during a trip to Kyiv.
Well, gosh darn. We didn’t think we’d be writing so much about rare earths and metals as a defense tech publication but, well, here we are. Yesterday, steel company (yes, we’re doing steel again) Hertha Metals announced that it’s raised a whopping $133.65M Series A to produce high-purity iron for domestic rare-earth magnets. Hertha Metals […]
Well, jeez. We knew maritime autonomy was all the rage, but the US government (and a certain Texas-based drone producer) are getting mega-serious about it. Yesterday, not-so-tiny USV startup Saronic announced that it’s been awarded a production OTA under the US Navy’s Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel (MUSV) Marketplace for Marauder, its 180-foot autonomous ship. Under […]
