Well, the US certainly didn’t slow things down while we were all eating pretzels in Munich. In case you missed it: On Thursday, the US Air Force announced that it’s kicked off integrating and testing the mission autonomy packages for the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program. That’s the software brains, basically, that will make those […]
Valentine’s Day is around the corner, and defense companies are in the matchmaking spirit. This morning, Boston-based maritime autonomy startup Blue Water Autonomy unveiled its first autonomous surface vessel: A 190-foot big ol’ drone boat designed in partnership with Dutch shipbuilding giant Damen called the “Liberty Class.” We told you maritime autonomy is all the […]
You know what’s better than being on one prototyping team for the Army’s big modernization mega-project? Being on all of ‘em. Right on the heels of joining Lockheed Martin’s Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) prototype team in December, logistics and sustainment software startup Rune announced today that it joined Anduril’s NGC2 team, making them […]
Is it just us, or does it seem like everyone is teaming up right now? This morning, new-age defense tech testing company Nominal announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that it’s officially partnering with Anduril to scale its testing infrastructure across Anduril’s production lines. Nominal CEO Cameron McCord told Tectonic that his company will […]
It’s been a big last few years for small, inexpensive drones (and the companies that build them), but larger platforms have remained pretty firmly in the realm of the expensive and exquisite. Today, in an exclusive release to Tectonic, Florida-based Petrel Technologies emerged from stealth to change that. The startup is building a low-cost, Group […]
The mash-ups continue. This morning, Second Front Systems (2F) and UK-based Valarian announced a strategic partnership to pair up Second Front’s government-facing commercial tech adoption software with Valarian’s sovereignty-focused data infrastructure to build a “new generation of sovereign-by-design digital solutions with controlled deployment pathways, compartmentalized environments, and audit-first infrastructure.” For the illiterate among us—basically, the […]
Remember when Y Combinator startups made food delivery and crypto apps? Well, times they have a-changed. This week, a new startup called Seeing Systems emerged out of the famed accelerator’s 2026 winter cohort, and they’re definitely not making widgets. The UK-based team—founded by two brothers—is building autonomous strike drones, and they’re already seeing early traction […]
Look out, world. The defense tech bros are teaming up across the Atlantic. Yesterday, Croatian drone wunderkind and California-based drone and additive manufacturing company Firestorm announced that they’re officially teaming up to 3D print Orqa’s teeny-tiny FPVs for frontline operators. According to Firestorm CEO Dan Magy and Orqa CEO Srdjan Kovacevic, both companies and customers […]
We’ve talked a lot around here about how AI is changing the way wars are fought, but we haven’t spent all that much time talking about how it’s going to change the way intelligence is gathered and analyzed. That changes today. This morning, AI-powered intelligence company Whitespace announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that […]
Told you it was a big day for the backend side of defense. This morning, Nikon SLM Solutions—a unit of Nikon Advanced Manufacturing—announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that shipbuilding giant HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division has placed a second order for its NXG 600E metal additive manufacturing system. Hamid Zarringhalam, CEO of […]
