Remember the olden days when companies emerged from stealth with, like, $5M in funding and a dream? Yeah. It would appear those days are long gone. Earlier this week, manufacturing software startup Arda emerged from stealth with $232M in total funding and a pretty flashy first customer: Anduril. Design within reach: Arda’s company’s flagship software […]
Turns out 2026 is a great year to be a low-cost interceptor company. This morning, launch hotshot-turned-missile-defense-darling Long Wall (née ABL Space Systems) announced that it’s been awarded a $75M contract from the US Missile Defense Agency to “complete flight testing of [its] Cyclops low-cost interceptor.” “Demand for interceptors has surged, while low production capacity […]
An exclusive interview with former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov.
Forget about Taco Tuesday. It’s fiber-reinforced composite structures Tuesday. (Is that a thing? We’re making it a thing.) This morning, LA-based composites startup Helicon announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that it’s, well, officially emerged from stealth and raised a cool $16.5M. CEO and co-founder Alex Niehaus told Tectonic that they’ll use the funding […]
Now, we may spend a lot of time around here talking about robots, and humans, and the interactions between humans and robots, but we don’t spend a heck of a lot of time talking about, well, the buildings and structures where all of these humans and robots live and work. Well, today we will. In […]
Another day, another heap of cash being allocated to the Army’s Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) effort. Yesterday, “operational intelligence platform” Shift5 announced that it’s been awarded a $99M IDIQ from the US Army to “further support” the mega-project. Shift5 CEO Toby Magsig told Tectonic that the contract “expands Shift5’s role from a prototyping […]
Remember when all of us here in defense tech land were just kind of a footnote when we talked about defense production and the primes? Yeah. Things have changed. Yesterday, new-age manufacturing company Hadrian announced that it’s signed a seven-year agreement with Lockheed Martin to “bring Hadrian’s advanced manufacturing capabilities directly into Lockheed Martin’s Missiles […]
Dominion will manufacture Tencore’s UGV in Canada, integrated with its AuraNet autonomy stack.
Anduril unveiled a new “family of highly-configurable, mass-producible surface-to-air interceptor missiles.”
Strap in, nerds. Everything really is computer. Yesterday, the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering (OUSW(R&E)) announced a total of $350M in awards and programs to “strengthen U.S. leadership in quantum computing capabilities that support national security.” With these awards, the Pentagon also says it will push the Department’s “innovation […]
