In case you didn’t catch Secretary Hegseth’s State of the Force address yesterday, the US military is going all in on drones of all shapes and sizes, from big aircraft and boats all the way down to teeny-tiny air and ground vehicles. And some people are taking teeny-tiny very seriously: Swarmbotics AI might make the […]
The defense tech scene on both sides of the pond is kicking into high gear, and that’s opening up opportunities for some very symbiotic transatlantic collabs. In an exclusive release in Tectonic this morning, Dutch drone and cruise missile hotshot Destinus and Texas-based software-defined missile startup Aeon announced that they’re teaming up on a co-developed […]
Well, jeez. We knew maritime autonomy was all the rage, but the US government (and a certain Texas-based drone producer) are getting mega-serious about it. Yesterday, not-so-tiny USV startup Saronic announced that it’s been awarded a production OTA under the US Navy’s Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel (MUSV) Marketplace for Marauder, its 180-foot autonomous ship. Under […]
There’s no shortage of enemy missiles, drones, and other go-boom tech keeping us up at night, but it’s time for a dose of the super-scary, invisible threats we talk about a lot less. Luckily, one startup is hard at work building the tech to help us detect them, and it’s catching the attention of the […]
You know what’s better than a drone boat? A big ol’ drone boat with some BFMs (big f*cking missiles) strapped on board. Luckily, the dudes (and dudettes) over at STARK have taken this lesson to heart. This morning, the European defense tech darling unveiled a new 12 m variant of its Vanta USV (yes, they […]
Over the course of America’s war with Iran, Iranian drones and missiles have hit US radars, aircraft, and the most critical of critical infrastructure in the age of AI: data centers. Russia, too, is increasingly targeting Ukraine’s data centers, “seeking to disrupt the flow of information,” Ukrainian foreign minister Andriy Sybiha wrote on X. Those […]
There’s been a whole lot of lessons learned from the war in Ukraine, but one of the biggest is that the modern battlefield is rife with jamming, spoofing, and electronic warfare. For vehicles and troops operating in that environment, knowing where to go when signals—especially GPS—get jammed gets pretty tricky. TERN thinks it has the […]
Remember how we keep saying some of the most important, cutting-edge defense tech isn’t necessarily the flying, sexy stuff? Adyton’s here to prove our point, and it looks like the Army agrees. The Dallas-based military operations software startup’s decentralized, peer-to-peer data fusion, communications, and inventory management platform, called Atlas, is rolling out on the Army’s […]
Tectonic was on the ground at a gathering of defense officials, investors, and execs in Austin last week.
The DDP plans to order 60,000 FPV drones from top performers in Gauntlet 2, including 14,000 from Neros.
