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X-Bow Scores $69.7M Contract for SRMs with the US Navy

Damn. The Navy really is on quite the spending spree.  This morning, New Mexico-based solid rocket motor (among much else) company X-Bow Systems announced that it’s been awarded a prototype agreement with the Navy worth $69.7M to “develop and qualify a solid rocket motor booster for a key U.S. Navy next-generation weapon.” An X-Bow spokesperson […]

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Exclusive: Striveworks Lands $9.75M Contract with US Army Europe and Africa 

Military AI is going on a little Eurotrip, y’all.  This morning, AI-for-defense hotshot Striveworks announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that it’s scored a $9.75M contract with the US Army in support of Task Force RAVEN, the “Army effort to put AI agents to work in European operations.” Under the contract, US soldiers in […]

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Ursa Major Lands $137M to Develop Solid Rocket Motors for Navy Missiles

After years of inertia, the long-consolidated and constrained solid rocket motor (SRM) industry seems to be finally being dragged into the future by a few startups, some fancy advanced manufacturing tech, and a military desperate to shore up its shrinking munitions stockpile. And now, it looks like the Navy is making a serious bet on […]

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Exclusive: Ditto Scores $17M SOCOM APFIT Award

Looks like the operators are going high-tech, y’all.  This morning, peer-to-peer data transfer company Ditto announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that it scored a $17M APFIT contract with USSOCOM to “[field the] Ditto platform across USSOCOM, enabling real-time data sharing between humans and autonomous systems operating at the tactical edge.” In real terms? […]

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Saronic Wins Roughly $400M Production OTA for Marauder

Well, jeez. We knew maritime autonomy was all the rage, but the US government (and a certain Texas-based drone producer) are getting mega-serious about it. Yesterday, not-so-tiny USV startup Saronic announced that it’s been awarded a production OTA under the US Navy’s Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel (MUSV) Marketplace for Marauder, its 180-foot autonomous ship. Under […]

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Exclusive: Adyton Rolls Out on the Army’s API Marketplace

Remember how we keep saying some of the most important, cutting-edge defense tech isn’t necessarily the flying, sexy stuff? Adyton’s here to prove our point, and it looks like the Army agrees. The Dallas-based military operations software startup’s decentralized, peer-to-peer data fusion, communications, and inventory management platform, called Atlas, is rolling out on the Army’s […]

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Lockheed Snags $1.2B Army Contract for PrSM Increment 2 Missiles

It’s a boom time in the boom business, especially for the biggest purveyor of boom and zoom in the game. Yesterday, defense giant Lockheed Martin announced that it won a $1.2B IDIQ contract for the second increment of the Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM), which are replacing the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) in the Army’s […]