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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 […]

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Anduril is Bringing Gecko’s Robo-Inspectors into Arsenal-2

Anduril’s Arsenal-2 shipyard near Baltimore is billed as the Navy’s factory of the future, so it’s only right they bring in the best-of-the-best in new-age manufacturing tech. Two short days after Anduril unveiled the $3.7B, 2M-square-foot mega-factory, Gecko Robotics announced that their wall-crawling robots and critical infrastructure inspection software will be deployed at Arsenal-2 and […]

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Harmattan Unveils IRIFI Deep Strike UAV

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 […]

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X-Bow Scores $69.7M Contract for SRMs with the US Navy

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 […]

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Exclusive: Striveworks Lands $9.75M Contract with US Army Europe and Africa 

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 […]

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Ursa Major Lands $137M to Develop Solid Rocket Motors for Navy Missiles

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 […]