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Valinor Launches Military Facility Maintenance Platform 

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 […]

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ICYMI: ICON Raises $200M Series D

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 […]

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Exclusive: Epirus Snags $18M Army Contract to Take Leonidas Mobile

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 […]

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Shift5 Scores $99M IDIQ for NGC2

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 […]

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Hadrian and Lockheed Ink Seven-Year Production Deal

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 […]

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Orqa US and XTEND Land Drone Dominance Program Orders

With the Drone Dominance Program’s Gauntlet II winners announced last month, it was only a matter of time before the big orders started piling up. Yesterday, Orqa US, the American subsidiary of Croatian drone giant Orqa FPV, and XTEND revealed they’ve won $38M and $40.5M contracts, respectively, after strong showings in the second round of […]

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Heaviside Unveils TYR Loitering Munition 

The go-boom side of defense tech kicked off AUSA with a bang. (Sorry.) Day One of the Army’s annual arms expo was jam-packed with a whole bunch of new boom-and-zoom tech, from ballistic missile interceptors (courtesy of Anduril and Lockheed) to next-gen howitzers.  Heaviside Industries, though, made a splash on the small-and-speedy side of the […]