Well, it seems the DoD, sorry, DoW, has really gotten a taste for critical minerals. Yesterday, Australian-American mining company Nova Minerals ($NVA) announced that it’s scored a $43.4M investment from the Pentagon to build out a production plant for a critical mineral called antimony in Alaska. The funding was awarded under the Defense Production Act […]
Another day, another (speedy quick) partnership. This morning, maritime autonomy company HavocAI announced that it’s teamed up with engine manufacturer Ilmor to equip its vessels with some fancy-shmancy high-powered electric propulsion motors. The two companies say they’ll build an outboard system called the ION Unleashed—a souped-up, defense-grade version of Ilmor’s consumer ION 6 motor—designed to […]
The autumn of collabs continues. Yesterday, ground autonomy company Forterra announced that it’s collaborating with defense giant BAE to “rapidly prototype” an autonomous Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV). The partnership is the first to be announced as part of a push to upgrade the AMPV’s capabilities, unveiled last month. “Working with BAE puts Forterra’s autonomy stack […]
Whoever thought the “maritime autonomy was all the rage” era was over, think again. This morning, European defense tech company STARK announced that they’re officially entering the maritime domain with a range of unmanned surface vessels (USVs), tested for the past month at NATO’s REP(MUS) exercise. The drone boats—called Vanta—will come in two flavors (Vanta-4 […]
Well, we’re starting off the week with a bang (get it). On Friday, robotic weapons company Allen Control Systems (ACS) announced that they’ve scored a contract (for an undisclosed amount) with US Special Operations Forces (SOF) to integrate its flagship Bullfrog autonomous machine gun onto SOF’s maritime platforms. The contract was awarded in collaboration with […]
It’s been quite the week for collaborative combat aircraft (CCA). Just as European defense tech giant Helsing unveiled its own drone fighter concept in Munich yesterday, there was some pretty big news on the US front: Aviation Week reported that Shield AI and Raytheon (RTX) have been tapped to provide autonomy software for the U.S. […]
Well, turns out everyone really does want their own unmanned fighter. This morning, on Grob Aircraft’s very rainy airfield just outside of Munich, European defense darling Helsing unveiled their own concept for an autonomous fighter jet—the CA-1 Europa. In a high-octane presentation (we’re talking strobe lights and smoke machines, people), the neoprime pulled back the […]
We told you that collabs were all the rage. Yesterday, aviation giant GE Aerospace announced that it has teamed up with defense AI startup Merlin Labs to develop an “autonomy core” to build into its avionics system. In a statement, the two companies said that this “next-generation autonomy and pilot-assist platform will be designed to […]
If there is one thing that’s emerging as a trend this fall, it’s some high-powered collabs. Yesterday, at the annual Air, Space & Cyber conference, Boeing’s defense and space arm (BDS) and Palantir inked a partnership to “integrate artificial intelligence (AI) systems and software” across Boeing’s factories and programs. Boeing will use Palantir’s Foundry—like so […]
Once upon a time, the big primes didn’t pay much attention to the lowly startup scene. Now, things have seriously changed, as evidenced by this morning’s announcement from Picogrid. As of today, the integration startup is officially partnering with Northrop Grumman to integrate Picogrid’s Legion software into Northrop’s AiON counter-drone command-and-control (C2) platform. Friends in […]
