Lasers are all the rage right now, but that doesn’t mean the Army’s lost sight of other forms of directed energy. This morning, Epirus announced it’s secured a $18M contract with the Army’s PAE Fires to make its flagship drone-zapping high-powered microwave (HPM) system, Leonidas, mobile and adaptable to different vehicle platforms. Fry ‘em: As […]
Another day, another heap of cash being allocated to the Army’s Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) effort. Yesterday, “operational intelligence platform” Shift5 announced that it’s been awarded a $99M IDIQ from the US Army to “further support” the mega-project. Shift5 CEO Toby Magsig told Tectonic that the contract “expands Shift5’s role from a prototyping […]
Remember when all of us here in defense tech land were just kind of a footnote when we talked about defense production and the primes? Yeah. Things have changed. Yesterday, new-age manufacturing company Hadrian announced that it’s signed a seven-year agreement with Lockheed Martin to “bring Hadrian’s advanced manufacturing capabilities directly into Lockheed Martin’s Missiles […]
ASC raised $15M to develop the full c-UAS sensing stack, from RF to radar and acoustic sensors.
With the Drone Dominance Program’s Gauntlet II winners announced last month, it was only a matter of time before the big orders started piling up. Yesterday, Orqa US, the American subsidiary of Croatian drone giant Orqa FPV, and XTEND revealed they’ve won $38M and $40.5M contracts, respectively, after strong showings in the second round of […]
The go-boom side of defense tech kicked off AUSA with a bang. (Sorry.) Day One of the Army’s annual arms expo was jam-packed with a whole bunch of new boom-and-zoom tech, from ballistic missile interceptors (courtesy of Anduril and Lockheed) to next-gen howitzers. Heaviside Industries, though, made a splash on the small-and-speedy side of the […]
Anduril unveiled a new “family of highly-configurable, mass-producible surface-to-air interceptor missiles.”
Anduril’s Arsenal-2 shipyard near Baltimore is billed as the Navy’s factory of the future, so it’s only right they bring in the best-of-the-best in new-age manufacturing tech. Two short days after Anduril unveiled the $3.7B, 2M-square-foot mega-factory, Gecko Robotics announced that their wall-crawling robots and critical infrastructure inspection software will be deployed at Arsenal-2 and […]
The boost brings total public and private funding for Shield AI’s autonomous fighter to a cool $400M.
In case you haven’t had a keen eye trained on Ukraine this summer, deep strike is quite the hot topic right now. Basically, companies like Fire Point have shown that lower-cost, autonomous deep strike weapons (like, with ranges well above 200 kilometers) can inflict oodles of damage deep in adversarial territory—especially when you train them […]
