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Atlas Motion Emerges from Stealth with $11.5M in Funding

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, […]

Erin O'Brien
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JIATF-401 Rolls Out Amazon-Style Counter-Drone Marketplace

You can buy pretty much anything on Amazon, but military equipment is (so far) off-limits.  Luckily for all of the shopaholic soldiers out there, the Pentagon’s JIATF-401 counter-drone task force is taking a page out of Amazon’s book and building Prime for the primes (and startups).  Today, they officially unveiled an online marketplace for companies […]

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Army Taps Rheinmetall-led Team for Sustainment UGVs

Looks like the Army’s keeping its foot on the gas in its push for more ground autonomy. On Friday, American Rheinmetall announced that it’s snagged a contract to serve as the prime integrator for a team of companies—Harbinger, Forterra, and Primordial Labs—that will develop autonomous logistics ground vehicles for the Army’s Project Sustainment initiative. Ghost […]

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ICYMI: DIU Wants More USVs

Sounds like someone is learning some lessons in the Strait of Hormuz. In case you missed it, on Wednesday DIU (which, apparently, has been renamed the War Department Innovation Unit) released a solicitation looking for USVs “fully integrated with two or more mature, market-ready aerial drones to detect, identify, track, and defeat hostile threats.” The […]

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NATO and Brave1 Open Apps for Joint Air Defense

Well, if you have a solution that you think can take down drones better than anyone else’s, now’s your moment.  Yesterday, Brave1—Ukraine’s defense innovation cluster—announced that applications are officially open for the UNITE – Brave NATO joint innovation program. The program—first announced in late 2025—is designed to “bring together Ukrainian defense companies and companies from […]

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EDA Picks Finalists for Sentinel Strike Challenge

Told you the Europeans were getting (kind of) serious about the whole drones and autonomy thing. Yesterday, the European Defense Agency (the EU’s joint defense capability organization) announced that it’s down-selected five companies for stage two of its Sentinel Strike Challenge for loitering munitions. Each company will get €30,000 to move on to stage two, […]

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Exclusive: Danti Gets a Makeover, Scores US Air Force Contract

Well, who says an AI-for-defense platform can’t have a major glow-up? This morning, defense and intelligence AI startup Danti announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that they’ve launched the new generation of their platform and secured a fresh contract with the US Air Force. The revamp comes after Danti was used during US Special […]