Seasats secured over $24M in fully-funded orders for its Lightfish small-USV in August.
The $464.8M contract covers dozens of AV’s LOCUST X3 cUAS systems.
Watch out, world. The US Army’s kill chain is going mobile. On Tuesday, the Army awarded two contracts worth a combined $192M—$127M to Palantir and $65M to Anduril—to move the Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) AI-powered mobile ground station from prototype into production. Clash of the TITANs: The TITAN program, to back things up, […]
Vantor really just keeps stacking wins. This morning, the geospatial intelligence giant announced that it’s been awarded a five-year contract (with a one-year base) by the Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific to “deliver maritime intelligence capabilities supporting missions across the Indo-Pacific.” The company could not disclose the value of the contract. Specifically, Vantor says […]
The Navy wants prototypes that cost less than $30M and can operate “directly from the sea.”
A few short weeks after raising a $60M Series B at a $600M valuation, Heaviside is showing no signs of slowing down. Late last week, the California-based super-stealthy, precision-munitions company was awarded a five-year, $99M IDIQ contract with the US Army, but it wasn’t for the tech you might expect from a go-boom startup. Instead, […]
Never really thought we’d be writing about mining and refining as we’re a defense publication and all, but here we are. On Friday, the Pentagon announced two mega investments in yet more domestic critical minerals supply: “To build a robust defense-industrial base, we must secure the foundational materials that enable it,” Assistant Secretary of War […]
The Army awarded five nuclear companies a collective $2.2B to deploy microreactors on five military installations.
The 155mm shell has been a workhorse of the US military’s artillery arsenal since World War I, but America has had a bit of a hard time, to put it lightly, ramping up production of the over-century-old munition to keep up with renewed demand from US and allied customers. The Pentagon’s looking for some help […]
Now, we know they say when it rains it pours and all that, but, gosh, Castelion is really testing the limits of the phrase. Late yesterday, the US Navy announced that it’s awarded the Torrance, CA-based company an additional $89.99M against its service-wide basic ordering agreement to “provide engineering, technical, logistics, and manufacturing services to […]
