We spend a whole lot of time around here talking about super-high-tech hardware (the go boom and zoom of it all), but we don’t spend a whole lot of time talking about how companies design that kit. That changes today. This morning, LA-based generative design startup VXB announced (exclusively to Tectonic) an upgrade to its […]
When we said that “a certain El Segundo-based company is doing very well on the whole Drone Dominance Program (DDP) front,” we might’ve undersold it—that certain company is doing very well on all fronts. Yesterday, the FPV phenoms at Neros announced that they raised $250M in a funding round co-led by Sequoia and American Strategic […]
Every single day, we write stories about all of the new hardware and software coming onto the market and into warfighters’ hands. It’s a lot to keep up with (enough, even, for a fairly substantial daily newsletter). All that innovation and energy is great and needed, but staying up to date with the changing technologies […]
Here we were thinking that defense tech’s exit era would look like giant primes buying up smaller startups. Turns out we were wrong—at least for now. Yesterday, electric aviation hotshot (and Anduril BFF) Archer Aviation announced that it would acquire three of Boeing’s autonomous flight subsidiaries—Wisk, SkyGrid and Insitu—giving the prime a 20 percent stake […]
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 […]
When you think of a drone swarm, a cloud of speedy little quadcopters flying in unison probably comes to mind. Swarm Aero has a different vision. The California-based startup is building a much larger, Reaper-sized Group 5 drone, designed to be mass-manufacturable and capable of operating in a swarm using its own in-house autonomy and […]
The multi-year deal is worth up to a whopping $900M.
The deal with NCSIST coincides with Vatn’s formation of a Taiwanese subsidiary, CEO Nelson Mills told Tectonic.
The Jaguars tapped Ondas subsidiary Sentrycs to deploy its drone detection and takeover tech at its stadium this season.
So long, unsexy side of defense. The whole supply chain thing is getting sexier and sexier by the day. This morning, a new startup called Atlas Motion emerged from stealth with $11.5M in funding led by Greycroft to build motors and actuators for drones, robotics, and other defense platforms. If you’re sitting there like, okay, […]
