ASC raised $15M to develop the full c-UAS sensing stack, from RF to radar and acoustic sensors.
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 […]
The boost brings total public and private funding for Shield AI’s autonomous fighter to a cool $400M.
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 […]
Anduril chooses MD for its Arsenal-2 shipyard, inks a $2.9B submarine contract, and wins a $1.8B Army deal for NGC2.
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 […]
Aventra has had a busy, busy year. Since coming out stealth with a $3.5M seed round last October, the Virginia-based startup has delivered hundreds of its high-altitude balloon-dropped glide bombs to US and NATO customers, doubled revenue (that’s production revenue, not RDT&E funding), and raised a nice chunk of new capital—$17.5M, to be exact, Aventra […]
After coming out of pretty much nowhere earlier this year, Powerus has notched headline after headline. But yesterday, the Florida-based drone startup made its biggest power play yet— ringing the bell on the Nasdaq to start trading as a public company. The company first announced plans to go public back in March via a slightly […]
The two companies have worked together “for several years,” Anduril’s maritime strategy chief told Tectonic.
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 […]
