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Skyeton Scores $10.64M US Army Contract

Looks a heck of a lot like the Ukrainians are coming, y’all. Late Friday, the US Army announced that it had awarded the US arm of Ukrainian drone company Skyeton a $10.64M fixed-price contract for its Raybird ISR drones (and all the fun associated hardware and services). The contract was awarded by US Army Contracting […]

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Rune Scores $4.1M Contract with 1st Cav

Well, looks like the whole “doubling down on the unsexy side of defense” thing is paying off.  Yesterday, defense logistics startup Rune Technologies announced that it’s scored a $4.1M contract from the US Army through the Army Applications Laboratory (AAL) to “expand Rune’s TyrOS deployment across the 1st Cavalry Division.” While the award may seem […]

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Merlin and Textron Unveil SkyCourier UX

Look out, world. The old guard and the new kids on the block are teaming up (again). This morning, as AFA kicks off in National Harbor, flight autonomy startup Merlin announced that it’s teamed up with aviation giant Textron Aviation to build a version of the Cessna SkyCourier souped-up with Merlin’s Pilot autonomy stack called, […]

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Anduril and Boeing Advance Interceptor for Integrated Fires Protection Capability (IFPC) 

Dare we say the primes and the neoprimes might be…making friends? Yesterday, everyone’s favorite defense tech company announced that it’s been selected (along with Boeing) to “advance to the next phase of competition for Integrated Fires Protection Capability (IFPC) Increment 2 Second Interceptor.” Anduril says the interceptor is powered by an SRM built out of […]

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Arlequin Raises €28M for Topological Neural Networks

Lock in, y’all. We’re getting nerdy today. This morning, Paris-based Arlequin AI announced that it’s raised a €28M ($32.55M) Series A to scale its AI architecture based on topological neural networks (TNNs)—non-LLM AI models designed to analyze large, interconnected, complex sets of data.  Arlequin CEO and cofounder Hugo Micheron told Tectonic that the company will […]

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Overland-led Team Scores $20M Contract for Autonomous Breaching

Look out, world. The robots really are coming. Yesterday, ground autonomy hotshot Overland AI announced that it scored a $20M contract under the US Army’s Engineer Autonomous Breaching Capability (EABC) initiative. Bishop said the capability is already in development and that they’ll “be progressively developing subsets of the capability throughout the fall,” leading up to […]