Anduril sure has a knack for making friends. Yesterday, defense and transportation-focused startup Shift5 announced that they’re joining Anduril’s Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) prototyping effort to bring its predictive maintenance magic to the Army’s 4th Infantry Division’s vehicles. Race to integrate: We’ve covered the Army’s NGC2 program a lot, so we’ll keep it […]
Defense tech isn’t all drone swarms and software. Sometimes the basic stuff is the most important. Today, in an exclusive release to Tectonic, Texas-based energetic material startup Critical Materials Group (CMG) emerged from stealth to solve an old problem with new tech: Making more of the stuff that makes things go boom, starting with C-4, […]
Quantum Systems is officially entering the ground autonomy game, baby. Earlier today, German autonomy hotshot Quantum Systems introduced MANDRILL, its first unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), at the Enforce Tac trade show in Nuremberg. The $3.5B startup, better known for its aerial drones, called it the first in a line of UGVs designed to work with […]
Looks like someone wants to unleash drone dominance. Yesterday, the FPV phenoms from El Segundo turned things up a notch big-time with Project Millennium: A new 250,000-square-foot factory down the road in Torrance, CA, where they’ll ramp up production of their Archer drones to a million a year. If you were wondering what they were […]
Vantor’s satellite imagery just got a whole lot smarter with some help from their friends at a little startup called Google. Yesterday, Vantor (the artist formerly known as Maxar Intelligence) announced a deal with Google to run Google’s Earth AI imagery models on Vantor’s government-focused, spatial intelligence platform, allowing Google’s AI to automate analysis reports […]
If you thought the unmanned surface vessel world couldn’t get any more crowded, well, think again. This morning, Accelint announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that its new MV-20 surface vessel has set out on a 600+ mile-long long-endurance mission in the Gulf of Mexico to prove “endurance, navigation, and integrated payload performance under […]
Watch out, world: The LA boys are teaming up. Yesterday, Mach Industries and new-age manufacturing giant Divergent announced that they’ve teamed up to build a drone called Venom, a “prototype flight demonstration aircraft showing hardware development at software speed,” according to a statement put out by the two companies. And they’re not messing around when […]
Look away, pirates: The Pentagon’s research agency is on a mission to make it a little bit harder to mess with unarmed vessels, and they’re betting that maritime autonomy hotshot Saronic can help them get there. Last week, DARPA tapped Saronic and three others to design and develop a semi-autonomous escort vessel under the Pulling […]
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 […]
