Remember that winning streak we said Anduril was on? Well, turns out it’s still going. This morning, the company’s rocket motor systems arm announced that it has been selected by the US Army to build a 4.75-inch solid rocket motor (SRM) for long-range precision rocket artillery missions. Anduril was awarded a $14.3M Defense Production Act […]
Everyone, it seems, wants a factory of the future. And if you already have one, it seems that everyone wants to use it. Today, Mach Industries announced that it’s partnering with hydrogen-powered drone maker Heven to ramp up UAV production at its Forge facility in Huntington Beach. Heven will use Mach’s vertically integrated production process […]
What if you could take any vehicle and just, like, make it autonomous? Well, now you can. This morning, Overland AI unveiled an autonomy “upfit kit” called SPARK that can plug and play into pretty much any ground vehicle, from a Camry to a tank, and turn it into a drone. This means that all […]
If you think you’ve had a wild first two months of the Trump administration, imagine what it’s like being a European leader. Within his first few weeks in office, Trump called into question the transatlantic alliances that have held firm since the end of WWII and basically said that the continent was on its own […]
Palantir ($PLTR) has a whole bunch of new friends. At the company’s annual AIPCon on Thursday, the software and data behemoth announced a slew of partnerships, including with defense darlings Epirus, Red Cat, Saildrone, and Saronic. Amidst surging interest in new defense tech, Palantir’s Warp Speed software will help these companies to scale up and […]
Looks like DOGE isn’t alone—the robots are coming for the government jobs, too. Last week, generative AI company Danti announced that its intelligence gathering LLM would be deployed across the US federal government, allowing US analysts to view synthesized government-gathered data on a handy-dandy platform. Think of it as ChatGPT, but for intelligence. “Think analysts […]
Let the age of super-charged drone boats begin. Unmanned surface vehicle (USV) maker Saildrone announced this morning that it entered a strategic partnership with software and data behemoth Palantir ($PLTR). Saildrone will use Palantir’s technology up and down its stack, from manufacturing, to fleet operations, to managing autonomous assets. The company will use Palantir’s Warp […]
In case you missed it, SecDef Pete Hegseth issued a memo last Thursday calling for major changes to how the DoD buys software. The “Directing Modern Software Acquisition to Maximize Lethality” directive calls for: This is a pretty big deal for commercial and nontraditional companies building the programs needed to win wars. “The way the […]
Anduril just keeps ‘em coming. The UK government awarded the British branch of the defense tech company a £30M ($38.6M) contract to provide loitering munitions to Ukraine, the company announced today. The Altius 600M and 700M drones will counter Russian aggression in the Black Sea, according to a UK government statement, and the deal was […]
For as long as there have been swarms of drones on the battlefield, defense companies have been trying to figure out quick, effective ways of jamming or shooting them down. Allen Control Systems (ACS) is one of them. Today, the company announced that it has been tapped to demo its tech at the Joint Counter-Small […]
