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Vantor Scores Contract with NIWC Pacific for the Indian Navy

Vantor really just keeps stacking wins. This morning, the geospatial intelligence giant announced that it’s been awarded a four-year contract by the Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific to “deliver maritime intelligence capabilities supporting missions across the Indo-Pacific.”  The company could not disclose the value of the contract.  Specifically, Vantor says it will deliver its […]

Erin O'Brien
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Heaviside Wins $99M US Army IDIQ for Body-Worn Drone Detector

A few short weeks after raising a $60M Series B at a $600M valuation, Heaviside is showing no signs of slowing down. Late last week, the California-based super-stealthy, precision-munitions company was awarded a five-year, $99M IDIQ contract with the US Army, but it wasn’t for the tech you might expect from a go-boom startup. Instead, […]

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Armada Unveils New Orion Modular Data Center

You know what sucks? When you’re trying to run an inference model at the edge, and your targeting or planning software completely craps out because, well, you simply don’t have the compute. Happens to the best of us. But luckily, Armada is back with yet another solution for the rather pesky problem of AI and […]

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ICYMI: CesiumAstro Expands Into Missile Tracking with 1Aardvark Acquisition

Everywhere you look, M&A activity seems to be slowly picking up. Turns out, the trend has made its way to space, too. Earlier this week, space and defense comms unicorn CesiumAstro snapped up Virginia-based defense mission software firm 1Aardvark, with an eye on expanding its work in missile defense and tracking.  The acquisition is CesiumAstro’s […]

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Exclusive: Maglut Heavy Industries Emerges from Stealth

If you thought you’d heard the last of the new-age rare earths processing startups, think again. This morning, a new California-based startup called Maglut Heavy Industries emerged from stealth with $3.1M in pre-seed funding and a goal of developing a “chromatography-based platform to process and refine rare earth elements domestically” in the US. (We’ll get […]

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Auriga Unveils Hermes for cUAS With Successful Open-Air Test

If you thought that SRMs and propellant were the only way to launch stuff into the air, well, think again. This morning, new-age launch company Auriga Space unveiled its new containerized Hermes electromagnetic launcher for drone interception and announced that they’ve already completed open-air testing of the system in the Mojave Desert. Basically, as we […]