Sounds like someone is learning some lessons in the Strait of Hormuz. In case you missed it, on Wednesday DIU (which, apparently, has been renamed the War Department Innovation Unit) released a solicitation looking for USVs “fully integrated with two or more mature, market-ready aerial drones to detect, identify, track, and defeat hostile threats.” The […]
There are a whole bunch of maritime defense tech startups that make operating in the Pacific a big part of their pitch. Not many can say they’re out there now, and already running into the adversary the technology is built to counter. Earlier this month, a Lightfish unmanned surface vessel (USV) made by San Diego-based […]
Well, if you have a solution that you think can take down drones better than anyone else’s, now’s your moment. Yesterday, Brave1—Ukraine’s defense innovation cluster—announced that applications are officially open for the UNITE – Brave NATO joint innovation program. The program—first announced in late 2025—is designed to “bring together Ukrainian defense companies and companies from […]
Told you the Europeans were getting (kind of) serious about the whole drones and autonomy thing. Yesterday, the European Defense Agency (the EU’s joint defense capability organization) announced that it’s down-selected five companies for stage two of its Sentinel Strike Challenge for loitering munitions. Each company will get €30,000 to move on to stage two, […]
The $100M OTA allows customers to flexibly buy Hidden Level’s drone-detecting passive radars.
Well, who says an AI-for-defense platform can’t have a major glow-up? This morning, defense and intelligence AI startup Danti announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that they’ve launched the new generation of their platform and secured a fresh contract with the US Air Force. The revamp comes after Danti was used during US Special […]
It seems like anywhere autonomy is involved, Applied Intuition finds a way to wiggle in. This time, it’s with defense tech heavyweight AV (FKA AeroVironment). The $15B autonomy software startup announced this morning that it’s teaming up with AV to integrate its Acuity ISR/Strike swarming software into the latter’s Mayhem 10 “launched effects” (fancy term […]
The space-based radar startup’s funding round will fund R&D and its expansion into the Indo-Pacific.
The British prime unveiled its bid for the UK MoD’s Storm Fighter collaborative combat aircraft program.
Dare we say 2026 might turn out to be the year of startup-legacy maritime partnerships? Yesterday, unmanned maritime darling Saronic announced that it’s teaming up with Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) to “accelerate the development of autonomy-capable maritime systems and technologies to strengthen America’s shipbuilding industrial base.” Together, the two companies will work on “autonomy and […]
