Voyager ($VOYG) is best known for its work in space, but the Air Force wants to bring it closer to Earth. On Wednesday, the publicly traded space company announced a $21M contract with the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) to develop AI-powered intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) systems that “scale seamlessly from tactical small Unmanned […]
The engine biz is getting buzzy. Earlier this week, Beehive Industries, a Colorado-based startup making 3D-printed engines for munitions and unmanned aerial systems (UAS), announced that its Frenzy engine has completed high-altitude testing and is ready for integration onto an aerial vehicle for flight tests starting early next year. In a frenzy: Founded in 2020, […]
‘Tis the season of team-ups, and it looks like the primes have new friends in the startup world on their Christmas list. On Tuesday, defense prime Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) and autonomy quasi-startup Applied Intuition announced they’re joining forces to introduce vehicle autonomy to SNC’s fleet of mobile c-UAS and air defense platforms. Shoot ‘em […]
In case you haven’t been paying attention, electronic warfare is kind of a big thing right now. Few are more aware of that than CX2, the El Segundo-based defense tech startup that says it’s “securing spectrum dominance for the United States and its allies.” This morning, in an exclusive release to Tectonic, the company unveiled […]
Ukraine’s path to NATO is looking shakier by the day, but that hasn’t stopped the alliance from pushing to integrate the country’s battle-tested tech into Europe’s defense tech ecosystem. Late last week, as we were all enjoying our turkey, NATO and Ukraine unveiled a new competition called “UNITE–Brave NATO,” designed to accelerate the adoption of […]
We told you that collabs were becoming a bit of a thing around here. Yesterday, drone visual navigation startup Vermeer announced a partnership with Sentry Operations, a low-profile terminal guidance and precision effects company. The two firms say they will work together to develop a full-stack, localized, and autonomous navigation platform for strike drones in […]
The season of mashups continues, except this time it’s a cross-domain remix. Yesterday, Israeli-American hydrogen drone company Heven AeroTech announced that it’s teaming up with quantum giant IonQ ($IONQ) to develop “quantum-enabled drones for national security applications.” Basically, that means that IonQ’s quantum tech—including quantum computing, quantum networking, quantum sensing, and quantum security technologies—will be […]
For all of the time we spend talking about the shiny, go-boom side of defense, we haven’t spent too much time in this newsletter on one of the scarier sides of modern conflict: cyber warfare. Lucky for us, a startup called Twenty that came out of stealth last week is all over it. The company—founded […]
Turns out the leap across the pond goes both ways. This morning, UK-based USV company Kraken Technology Group announced that they’ve scored a coveted $49M cap OTA with United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) to develop and prototype “novel uncrewed surface and subsurface vessel technologies to enhance maritime capabilities for U.S. special operations forces.” This […]
The great leap across the pond continues. Yesterday, US defense tech giant Shield AI announced that it’s partnering with European autonomous flight company Destinus to “integrate Hivemind, Shield AI’s mission autonomy software, across Destinus’ aerial platforms.” “Destinus is one of Europe’s most consequential defense technology companies,” Chris Brinkley, Head of European Business Development and Strategy […]
