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 […]
The contract gives Army units access to Sandtable’s platform for “integrated mission planning and wargaming support.”
Happy Monday, y’all. We’re pretty amped up today. (Please forgive us; It was right there.) This morning, ruggedized power-for-the-edge company Chariot announced that it’s inked a $7.6M contract with DIU under the Portable Resilient Integrated Storage Module (PRISM) program. “Power availability decides what equipment troops get to bring to the fight,” Chariot Founder and CEO […]
The Navy also tapped CoAspire for the CHAOS maritime strike program last month.
Well, sounds like at least one service is getting serious about the whole distributed and contested logistics side of things. Yesterday, heavy-lift drone company Elroy Air announced that it’s won a $46M multi-year contract with the US Army for “the development of an autonomous hybrid-electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) uncrewed aircraft system for modular […]
We don’t have to tell you the interceptor shortage is very real and very dire, but much of this discussion focuses on Group 3 (i.e., Shahed-type) UAS threats. Russia and Iran certainly have used smaller, cheaper drones en masse, but a lot of the real damage—in Iran’s case—inflicted on US bases in the Middle East […]
The award comes just a few weeks after NODA won a $10M contract to develop and integrate its orchestration system with LUCAS.
Big day for the backend side of defense. This morning, software-for-defense hotshot Code Metal announced that it’s won a $80M OTA to “advance WarMatrix, the AI-enabled modeling and simulation platform Code Metal built in partnership with the U.S. Air Force.” “We’re really excited,” Code Metal CEO and co-founder Peter Morales told Tectonic. “The work that […]
Everyone really is on the non-kinetic-weapon hype train right now, aren’t they? This morning, high-powered-microwave (HPM) giant Epirus announced that they’ve been awarded an $11M contract by the US Marine Corps for the High-power Microwave Autonomous Vehicle Operational Capability (HAVOC) program. Under the contract, Epirus will deliver “its latest high-power microwave (HPM) system for counter-UAS […]
