Everyone’s favorite neoprime is back—and this time with some explosive news (bada-bing!). This morning, Anduril announced that it has received $43.7M in Defense Production Act Title III funding to expand solid rocket motor (SRM) production in the US. The company says the funding will be used to “increase the efficiency and resiliency of [Anduril’s SRM […]
Look away, pirates: The Pentagon’s research agency is on a mission to make it a little bit harder to mess with unarmed vessels, and they’re betting that maritime autonomy hotshot Saronic can help them get there. Last week, DARPA tapped Saronic and three others to design and develop a semi-autonomous escort vessel under the Pulling […]
If you’re looking for something to cure your post-Super Bowl blues, the Department of Defense has you covered. Last week, the Pentagon revealed the 25 vendors selected to face off in the first phase of the Drone Dominance Program (DDP), the department’s $1.1B initiative to buy up tons of low-cost UAVs for the Army, and […]
If you hadn’t noticed, there’s a whole lot of new defense tech coming onto the scene, and, as it turns out, the Pentagon is pretty interested in making sure all of it works together. That’s been good news for Picogrid. Yesterday, the El Segundo-based integration startup announced a $9.3M contract with the Air Force to […]
Emil Michael is officially assembling his defense tech Power Rangers. Just two months after announcing the six “critical technology areas” (CTAs) that the DoD will focus on for capability development, on Friday, the Pentagon CTO announced the six guys (yes, they’re all guys) that will lead the priority tech areas. Leaders tapped include the newly […]
Well, we all saw this one coming. Right on the heels of a deal with the Pentagon to triple Patriot missile interceptor output, Lockheed Martin ($LMT) took things up a notch yesterday, announcing an agreement to quadruple production of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors over the next seven years. For all the prime-bashing, […]
Overland AI just keeps notching wins. Yesterday—hot off winning the Army’s xTechOverwatch competition—the ground autonomy startup announced that it’s won a $2M Army contract to “put autonomous ground vehicles in the hands of 1st Cavalry Division Troopers.” Thought the whole idea was that hands weren’t necessary, but who are we to say? Rise of the […]
Aviation autonomy is all the rage these days, but Beacon AI is less concerned with automating the piloting part and more focused on all of the brain-draining, paper-pushing stuff pilots and crews have to do before takeoff and in the air. And the Air Force is taking notice. On Wednesday, in an exclusive release to […]
This may come as a departure from Tectonic’s usual lighthearted coverage, but at the end of the day, it’s our responsibility to report on all of the defense tech industry—even the gritty bits. The US Navy’s former Program Executive Officer for Unmanned and Small Combatants (PEO USC), Rear Adm. Kevin Smith, was fired from his […]
Seasats is making a splash in the unmanned surface vessel (USV) space. Yesterday, California-based USV startup Seasats announced that it’s been awarded a joint $24M contract with the Navy and Marines under the APFIT program to accelerate production and delivery of its Lightfish USVs. This comes on the heels of the company scoring a $89M […]
