There’s been a whole lot of lessons learned from the war in Ukraine, but one of the biggest is that the modern battlefield is rife with jamming, spoofing, and electronic warfare. For vehicles and troops operating in that environment, knowing where to go when signals—especially GPS—get jammed gets pretty tricky. TERN thinks it has the […]
Remember how we keep saying some of the most important, cutting-edge defense tech isn’t necessarily the flying, sexy stuff? Adyton’s here to prove our point, and it looks like the Army agrees. The Dallas-based military operations software startup’s decentralized, peer-to-peer data fusion, communications, and inventory management platform, called Atlas, is rolling out on the Army’s […]
Tectonic was on the ground at a gathering of defense officials, investors, and execs in Austin last week.
The DDP plans to order 60,000 FPV drones from top performers in Gauntlet 2, including 14,000 from Neros.
It’s a boom time in the boom business, especially for the biggest purveyor of boom and zoom in the game. Yesterday, defense giant Lockheed Martin announced that it won a $1.2B IDIQ contract for the second increment of the Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM), which are replacing the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) in the Army’s […]
Looks a heck of a lot like the Ukrainians are coming, y’all. Late Friday, the US Army announced that it had awarded the US arm of Ukrainian drone company Skyeton a $10.64M fixed-price contract for its Raybird ISR drones (and all the fun associated hardware and services). The contract was awarded by US Army Contracting […]
The drone-boat world is getting busier and busier, but a partnership between one of the world’s largest shipbuilders and a new, relatively unknown American maritime autonomy company is betting they can rise to the top. After formally teaming up in April, Hanwha Defense USA, the US subsidiary of Korean defense giant Hanwha, and super sneaky […]
Germanium—dominated by China—is used in thermal-imaging systems, ISR sensors, missile seekers, and more.
Well, looks like the whole “doubling down on the unsexy side of defense” thing is paying off. Yesterday, defense logistics startup Rune Technologies announced that it’s scored a $4.1M contract from the US Army through the Army Applications Laboratory (AAL) to “expand Rune’s TyrOS deployment across the 1st Cavalry Division.” While the award may seem […]
Turns out loyal wingmen aren’t just for fighter jets.
