The autumn of collabs continues. Yesterday, ground autonomy company Forterra announced that it’s collaborating with defense giant BAE to “rapidly prototype” an autonomous Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV). The partnership is the first to be announced as part of a push to upgrade the AMPV’s capabilities, unveiled last month. “Working with BAE puts Forterra’s autonomy stack […]
Whoever thought the “maritime autonomy was all the rage” era was over, think again. This morning, European defense tech company STARK announced that they’re officially entering the maritime domain with a range of unmanned surface vessels (USVs), tested for the past month at NATO’s REP(MUS) exercise. The drone boats—called Vanta—will come in two flavors (Vanta-4 […]
Many startups are making drones. Some are making missiles. Few are making mid-size drones that fire missiles. On Monday, Aeon and Delta Black announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that they’re partnering to fill that gap by adding Aeon’s software-defined Zeus missiles onto Delta Black’s RAIDER 330 Group 3 drone. (Ae)On Fire: Aeon, founded […]
Like the rest of Silicon Valley, Scale AI has quickly become a big-time defense contractor since, well, AI is all the rage in the Pentagon right now. On Wednesday, the AI training data startup—which Meta took a 49 percent stake in for a cool $15B in June—announced its expanded physical AI data engine platform for […]
It’s been quite the week for collaborative combat aircraft (CCA). Just as European defense tech giant Helsing unveiled its own drone fighter concept in Munich yesterday, there was some pretty big news on the US front: Aviation Week reported that Shield AI and Raytheon (RTX) have been tapped to provide autonomy software for the U.S. […]
Well, turns out everyone really does want their own unmanned fighter. This morning, on Grob Aircraft’s very rainy airfield just outside of Munich, European defense darling Helsing unveiled their own concept for an autonomous fighter jet—the CA-1 Europa. In a high-octane presentation (we’re talking strobe lights and smoke machines, people), the neoprime pulled back the […]
We told you that collabs were all the rage. Yesterday, aviation giant GE Aerospace announced that it has teamed up with defense AI startup Merlin Labs to develop an “autonomy core” to build into its avionics system. In a statement, the two companies said that this “next-generation autonomy and pilot-assist platform will be designed to […]
If there is one thing that’s emerging as a trend this fall, it’s some high-powered collabs. Yesterday, at the annual Air, Space & Cyber conference, Boeing’s defense and space arm (BDS) and Palantir inked a partnership to “integrate artificial intelligence (AI) systems and software” across Boeing’s factories and programs. Boeing will use Palantir’s Foundry—like so […]
Once upon a time, the big primes didn’t pay much attention to the lowly startup scene. Now, things have seriously changed, as evidenced by this morning’s announcement from Picogrid. As of today, the integration startup is officially partnering with Northrop Grumman to integrate Picogrid’s Legion software into Northrop’s AiON counter-drone command-and-control (C2) platform. Friends in […]
In case you’re new around here, there’s one thing you should know: the rocket motor industry is infamously concentrated, with just a few old-school suppliers responsible for a whole industry’s worth of energetics. But in recent years, a few new players have arrived on the scene, promising to do things differently. Firehawk is one of […]
