Lasers and partnering with Rheinmetall…so hot right now. Directed energy startup Aurelius Systems is teaming up with the German mega-prime’s American subsidiary to integrate its drone-downing laser weapon, Archimedes, onto a Rheinmetall unmanned ground vehicle, the company exclusively told Tectonic. The partnership is the first for Aurelius and, since they aren’t planning to make ground […]
Well, the moment you’ve all been waiting for is finally here. Late last week, the Ukrainian government officially announced its first mechanism for exporting defense and military technology to partner nations. Under the setup—in the works for nearly two years—the government will maintain pretty tight control over exports, but manufacturers will (at long last) be […]
You know what sucks? When you’ve got a drone on mission with no (or limited) comms and it gets lost with no satellite data to fall back again. Can be a pretty pricey—or at least deeply annoying—issue. Well, good news is, visual navigation startup Vermeer has come up with a solution. This morning, the company […]
If you read Tectonic, you’ll probably be aware of two things: Hypersonic weapons are in high demand these days, and the government wants to move fast to field them. Like, really fast. That’s all well and good, but one super-underappreciated part of that story is that testing these systems—especially the unsexy stuff like coatings, ceramic […]
If you thought those super-precise 2D satellite images of—for example—bombed-out Iranian nuclear sites were cool, just wait ’til you hear what Vantor has in store for you today. This morning, the satellite imaging company (formerly known as Maxar Intelligence—but you should know that by now) released a new product line it’s calling WorldView 3D that […]
Looks like the clankers (robots, for the non-internet people among us) are here to stay. Yesterday, ground autonomy startup Overland AI announced that they’ve been awarded a $20M production contract through the APFIT program to deliver autonomous ground vehicles for the Marine Corps Marine Air Defense Integrated System (MADIS). For the uninitiated, that’s the Corps’ […]
Is it just us, or is the stuff we’re covering (looking at you, haptic controllers) getting more and more niche? This morning, Australian aerospace tech company MAKO (formerly known as MicroTau) announced that it’s raised AU$28M (US$20M) to scale up production of its—wait for it—“drag-reducing shark skin-inspired adhesive film for aviation,” known as Flightfilm. The […]
Making your first acquisition is a big moment in any startup’s life, and Code Metal is speedrunning it. Yesterday, Code Metal announced that they’ve snapped up Signal Processing Technologies (SPT), a move that takes the three-year-old startup from simply translating high-level code and algorithms onto hardware systems into actually developing the algorithms themselves, starting with […]
In case you haven’t been paying attention, Vantor has been having quite the week across the pond. In the space of a week, the spatial intelligence company has announced a partnership with Rheinmetall to create “a European 3D information platform for spatial intelligence,” and teamed up with British prime BAE Systems to manufacture its 20 […]
Well, for all of you drone pilots out there sick of just using traditional controllers, boy, do we have some good news for you. This morning, Amsterdam-based startup Touchwaves announced in an exclusive interview with Tectonic that they’re teaming up with General Atomics to bring their wearable haptic tech to MQ-9 Reaper pilots. GA also […]
