In case you haven’t had a keen eye trained on Ukraine this summer, deep strike is quite the hot topic right now. Basically, companies like Fire Point have shown that lower-cost, autonomous deep strike weapons (like, with ranges well above 200 kilometers) can inflict oodles of damage deep in adversarial territory—especially when you train them […]
Damn. The Navy really is on quite the spending spree. This morning, New Mexico-based solid rocket motor (among much else) company X-Bow Systems announced that it’s been awarded a prototype agreement with the Navy worth $69.7M to “develop and qualify a solid rocket motor booster for a key U.S. Navy next-generation weapon.” An X-Bow spokesperson […]
Forterra integrates its AutoDrive autonomy stack with Hypercraft’s Razorback for contested logistics missions.
Anduril chooses MD for its Arsenal-2 shipyard, inks a $2.9B submarine contract, and wins a $1.8B Army deal for NGC2.
Military AI is going on a little Eurotrip, y’all. This morning, AI-for-defense hotshot Striveworks announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that it’s scored a $9.75M contract with the US Army in support of Task Force RAVEN, the “Army effort to put AI agents to work in European operations.” Under the contract, US soldiers in […]
After years of inertia, the long-consolidated and constrained solid rocket motor (SRM) industry seems to be finally being dragged into the future by a few startups, some fancy advanced manufacturing tech, and a military desperate to shore up its shrinking munitions stockpile. And now, it looks like the Navy is making a serious bet on […]
Looks like the operators are going high-tech, y’all. This morning, peer-to-peer data transfer company Ditto announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that it scored a $17M APFIT contract with USSOCOM to “[field the] Ditto platform across USSOCOM, enabling real-time data sharing between humans and autonomous systems operating at the tactical edge.” In real terms? […]
Powerus may have just rung the bell at the Nasdaq, but they’re not resting on their laurels.
The two companies have worked together “for several years,” Anduril’s maritime strategy chief told Tectonic.
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 […]
