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X-Bow Scores $69.7M Contract for SRMs with the US Navy

Damn. The Navy really is on quite the spending spree.  This morning, New Mexico-based solid rocket motor (among much else) company X-Bow Systems announced that it’s been awarded a prototype agreement with the Navy worth $69.7M to “develop and qualify a solid rocket motor booster for a key U.S. Navy next-generation weapon.” An X-Bow spokesperson […]

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Exclusive: Striveworks Lands $9.75M Contract with US Army Europe and Africa 

Military AI is going on a little Eurotrip, y’all.  This morning, AI-for-defense hotshot Striveworks announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that it’s scored a $9.75M contract with the US Army in support of Task Force RAVEN, the “Army effort to put AI agents to work in European operations.” Under the contract, US soldiers in […]

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Ursa Major Lands $137M to Develop Solid Rocket Motors for Navy Missiles

After years of inertia, the long-consolidated and constrained solid rocket motor (SRM) industry seems to be finally being dragged into the future by a few startups, some fancy advanced manufacturing tech, and a military desperate to shore up its shrinking munitions stockpile. And now, it looks like the Navy is making a serious bet on […]

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Exclusive: Ditto Scores $17M SOCOM APFIT Award

Looks like the operators are going high-tech, y’all.  This morning, peer-to-peer data transfer company Ditto announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that it scored a $17M APFIT contract with USSOCOM to “[field the] Ditto platform across USSOCOM, enabling real-time data sharing between humans and autonomous systems operating at the tactical edge.” In real terms? […]

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Exclusive: Swarmbotics Hardens Its Mini Autonomous Ground Vehicle

In case you didn’t catch Secretary Hegseth’s State of the Force address yesterday, the US military is going all in on drones of all shapes and sizes, from big aircraft and boats all the way down to teeny-tiny air and ground vehicles.  And some people are taking teeny-tiny very seriously: Swarmbotics AI might make the […]

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Exclusive: Aeon Brings Destinus’ Interceptors Stateside

The defense tech scene on both sides of the pond is kicking into high gear, and that’s opening up opportunities for some very symbiotic transatlantic collabs.  In an exclusive release in Tectonic this morning, Dutch drone and cruise missile hotshot Destinus and Texas-based software-defined missile startup Aeon announced that they’re teaming up on a co-developed […]