The “Group 2 to Group 3 UAV” will be designed around Divergent’s 3D printing tech from the start.
Vantor really just keeps stacking wins. This morning, the geospatial intelligence giant announced that it’s been awarded a four-year contract by the Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific to “deliver maritime intelligence capabilities supporting missions across the Indo-Pacific.” The company could not disclose the value of the contract. Specifically, Vantor says it will deliver its […]
The Navy wants prototypes that cost less than $30M and can operate “directly from the sea.”
A few short weeks after raising a $60M Series B at a $600M valuation, Heaviside is showing no signs of slowing down. Late last week, the California-based super-stealthy, precision-munitions company was awarded a five-year, $99M IDIQ contract with the US Army, but it wasn’t for the tech you might expect from a go-boom startup. Instead, […]
You know what sucks? When you’re trying to run an inference model at the edge, and your targeting or planning software completely craps out because, well, you simply don’t have the compute. Happens to the best of us. But luckily, Armada is back with yet another solution for the rather pesky problem of AI and […]
Everywhere you look, M&A activity seems to be slowly picking up. Turns out, the trend has made its way to space, too. Earlier this week, space and defense comms unicorn CesiumAstro snapped up Virginia-based defense mission software firm 1Aardvark, with an eye on expanding its work in missile defense and tracking. The acquisition is CesiumAstro’s […]
The Army awarded five nuclear companies a collective $2.2B to deploy microreactors on five military installations.
If you thought you’d heard the last of the new-age rare earths processing startups, think again. This morning, a new California-based startup called Maglut Heavy Industries emerged from stealth with $3.1M in pre-seed funding and a goal of developing a “chromatography-based platform to process and refine rare earth elements domestically” in the US. (We’ll get […]
The pre-seed round led by Khosla Ventures funds the development of Spike, Mara’s portable full-stack counter-drone system.
If you thought that SRMs and propellant were the only way to launch stuff into the air, well, think again. This morning, new-age launch company Auriga Space unveiled its new containerized Hermes electromagnetic launcher for drone interception and announced that they’ve already completed open-air testing of the system in the Mojave Desert. Basically, as we […]
