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 […]
Everyone is really jumping on the drone dominance agenda. This morning, Australian-American c-UAS company DroneShield announced that it’s massively expanding its R&D operations in the US. The company—which already has a branch in the US and works closely with the DoD—says it will invest “several million dollars” in its expansion in the next two years, […]
Well, we hope everyone has had a few decent nights’ sleep since DSEI wrapped on Friday and that our friends in London are enjoying the return of the Tube. (If you don’t understand why this is such a big deal, bless you.) With the weekend behind us (and Trump planned to hop across the pond […]
We’ve brought you a lot of European news out of DSEI this week, so we thought on this lovely Friday, we’d take a quick hop over to the Indo-Pacific. Yesterday, Shield AI announced that they’ve signed a teaming agreement with Taiwanese defense prime Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC). The two companies say they will work […]
Palantir can’t be stopped. On Wednesday, the defense and intelligence software giant with a $395B market cap won a contract to provide “all Marines—from tactical units within the Fleet Marine Force (FMF) to the Supporting Establishment—with access to [Palantir’s Maven Smart System],” the Marine Corps announced. Add this to the company’s $10B Army contract, and […]
Welp, Anduril is back for more—and this time, in a different hemisphere. In case you missed it, on Tuesday, the defense tech darling announced that its Australian branch has been awarded a $1.12B ($1.7B) contract to deliver a fleet of its Ghost Shark SSK XL autonomous submarine. This is officially Anduril’s first international program of […]
If you work in the ever-growing unmanned surface vessel (USV) world and are worrying about scale, you might want to look away. On Tuesday, shipbuilding giant Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) announced a new family of ROMULUS USVs—and that the fleet’s flagship is already under construction. Looks like the primes were paying attention to Saronic’s $392M […]
If you thought the defense tech world on this side of the pond comes to a standstill during DSEI, think again. This morning, integration startup Picogrid announced a $3.2M Air Force contract win to bring their Legion software and Helios hardware to help the Air Force’s growing number of autonomous systems play nice. Picogrid has […]
Looks like Anduril is doubling down on its mixed reality roots. Yesterday, the defense tech giant confirmed that it’s scored a $159M US Army contract to prototype a night vision and mixed reality system as part of the Soldier Borne Mission Command (SBMC) program, the successor to IVAS. The company said in a statement that […]
Biiiiig day for collabs. This morning, Germany-based defense tech giant Helsing announced that it’s teaming up with ground autonomy company ARX Robotics to “develop an AI-based reconnaissance and strike network for European defence.” The two companies say they will cooperate in Ukraine, as well as on projects in the UK, Germany, and other European countries. […]
