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 […]
The contract gives Army units access to Sandtable’s platform for “integrated mission planning and wargaming support.”
Happy Monday, y’all. We’re pretty amped up today. (Please forgive us; It was right there.) This morning, ruggedized power-for-the-edge company Chariot announced that it’s inked a $7.6M contract with DIU under the Portable Resilient Integrated Storage Module (PRISM) program. “Power availability decides what equipment troops get to bring to the fight,” Chariot Founder and CEO […]
The Navy also tapped CoAspire for the CHAOS maritime strike program last month.
