We’ve talked a lot around here about how AI is changing the way wars are fought, but we haven’t spent all that much time talking about how it’s going to change the way intelligence is gathered and analyzed. That changes today. This morning, AI-powered intelligence company Whitespace announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that […]
Told you it was a big day for the backend side of defense. This morning, Nikon SLM Solutions—a unit of Nikon Advanced Manufacturing—announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that shipbuilding giant HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division has placed a second order for its NXG 600E metal additive manufacturing system. Hamid Zarringhalam, CEO of […]
HavocAI is putting the collab in collaborative autonomy. This morning, in an exclusive release to Tectonic, Rhode Island-based maritime autonomy startup HavocAI announced a partnership to put its collaborative autonomy software on Tideman Marine’s six-meter Viper unmanned surface vessel (USV). Boat buddies: In case you’re new around here, HavocAI, which raised $85M in October, has […]
Well, we all saw this one coming. Right on the heels of a deal with the Pentagon to triple Patriot missile interceptor output, Lockheed Martin ($LMT) took things up a notch yesterday, announcing an agreement to quadruple production of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors over the next seven years. For all the prime-bashing, […]
The boys in Bozeman are back with some news. Yesterday, Montana-based mapping and intelligence startup Reveal Technology announced that it’s snapped up Anomaly Six (A6), a “a multi-domain digital intelligence company,” and will integrate “A6’s global location and behavioral-pattern solutions with Reveal’s autonomous tactical ecosystem.” In normal-people speak? Reveal is folding A6’s ability to track […]
In case you missed it, earlier this month, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issued a memo outlining his plan to make the Pentagon “an ‘AI-first’ warfighting force across all components, from front to back.” San Francisco-based military AI startup Legion Intelligence is taking him up on that. Yesterday, the company launched a new tool called […]
Well, it seems the whole “factory of the future” thing is really happening. This morning, Anduril released a year-one update on its Arsenal-1 production facility in Ohio—the $1B, 5M+ square foot mega factory the company announced it was building last January. According to the release, the walls are up on the first two buildings, the […]
If all goes according to plan, Antares Nuclear and a handful of other nuclear startups will have a lot more to celebrate on July 4 than Independence Day. Earlier this week, Antares, an LA-based space and defense-focused nuclear fission startup, moved closer to turning on its microreactor after the Department of Energy approved its Preliminary […]
Turns out teamwork really does make the dream work. Last week, Lockheed Martin and its teammates showed off the first version of their Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) prototype to the Army’s 25th Infantry Division during the Lightning Surge 1 exercises in Hawaii. Reboot: As a refresher, Lockheed was awarded a $26M OTA in […]
The Anduril empire just keeps on growing. Yesterday, the defense tech giant announced that it’s opening up a new 1M+ square-foot campus in Long Beach, CA, where the firm (can’t really call it a startup anymore, can we?) says it will carry out everything from software development to R&D. An Anduril spokesperson told Tectonic that […]
