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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 […]

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Skyeton Scores $10.64M US Army Contract

Looks a heck of a lot like the Ukrainians are coming, y’all. Late Friday, the US Army announced that it had awarded the US arm of Ukrainian drone company Skyeton a $10.64M fixed-price contract for its Raybird ISR drones (and all the fun associated hardware and services). The contract was awarded by US Army Contracting […]

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Rune Scores $4.1M Contract with 1st Cav

Well, looks like the whole “doubling down on the unsexy side of defense” thing is paying off.  Yesterday, defense logistics startup Rune Technologies announced that it’s scored a $4.1M contract from the US Army through the Army Applications Laboratory (AAL) to “expand Rune’s TyrOS deployment across the 1st Cavalry Division.” While the award may seem […]

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The Navy Taps Saronic to Build a Regular, Old Landing Craft

Saronic may be near-synonymous with futuristic drone boats, but the US Navy sees something different: A shipbuilder with rapidly expanding capacity, a growing workforce, and a solid balance sheet.  There aren’t many others.  Yesterday, the Navy awarded the autonomous surface vessel (ASV) hotshot, alongside legacy shipbuilders Conrad Shipyard of Texas and Master Boat Builders of […]