Secretary Pete Hegseth has pledged to make the US military an “AI-first warfighting force,” and the Navy is taking that on board. Literally. Yesterday, autonomy software giant Applied Intuition announced that the US Navy has tapped it to deploy a new AI-powered sensor fusion and data-collection system “across the manned and unmanned fleet,” starting with […]
Remember the olden days when companies emerged from stealth with, like, $5M in funding and a dream? Yeah. It would appear those days are long gone. Earlier this week, manufacturing software startup Arda emerged from stealth with $232M in total funding and a pretty flashy first customer: Anduril. Design within reach: Arda’s company’s flagship software […]
Turns out 2026 is a great year to be a low-cost interceptor company. This morning, launch hotshot-turned-missile-defense-darling Long Wall (née ABL Space Systems) announced that it’s been awarded a $75M contract from the US Missile Defense Agency to “complete flight testing of [its] Cyclops low-cost interceptor.” “Demand for interceptors has surged, while low production capacity […]
You know how we keep saying that Valinor has made solving the US military’s least sexy, most overlooked problems their whole thing? Well, they’re taking that to the next level with their newest product company: A software-defined facility management system called Terra that aims to bring predictive maintenance, smart sensors, and mold detection into the […]
The Navy quadrupled Gecko’s $71M IDIQ to expand from the Pacific Fleet to Naval Surface Force Atlantic.
Now, we may spend a lot of time around here talking about robots, and humans, and the interactions between humans and robots, but we don’t spend a heck of a lot of time talking about, well, the buildings and structures where all of these humans and robots live and work. Well, today we will. In […]
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.
