Northrop Grumman’s hot streak in the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) world is showing no signs of slowing down. Just a few weeks after the Air Force called Northrop’s Talon drone a “strong contender” for the service’s CCA program (designating it as the YFQ-48A), the prime announced that it’s been awarded a contract to build the […]
The counter-drone space may be busy as hell, but it seems that hasn’t deterred California-based Mach Industries. This morning, the MIT-dropout-founded defense tech startup unveiled Dart: their new low-cost interceptor designed to take down Group 1-3 drones, plus an internally developed ground-based radar system to go with it. If Mach loves one thing, it’s trying […]
It certainly seems like our friends in Rhode Island had some pretty ambitious New Year’s resolutions. This morning, autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) company Vatn Systems announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that it has acquired RI-based Crewless Marine to scale up its underwater acoustic sensing and processing capabilities. Crewless will be fully folded into […]
You don’t hear “ahead of schedule” very often in the defense world, but Aeon seems to be making a habit of it. On Monday, in an exclusive release to Tectonic, Aeon announced it completed a successful flight test of its Zeus missile launched from a Moog ($MOG.A) integrated turret platform last week. That’s just three […]
It was only a matter of time before the Gundo Bros linked up. Yesterday, El Segundo, CA-based integration startup Picogrid and electronic warfare company CX2 announced that they teamed up to make CX2’s RF detection tech play nice with radars and other sensors at the Army XVIII Airborne Corps’ Scarlet Dragon exercise at Fort Bragg […]
To whoever thought this would be a slow news week in defense tech land, think again. Yesterday, Anduril announced that it’s teaming up with teeny tiny startup Boeing to provide solid rocket motors for the prime as part of its bid for the U.S. Army’s Integrated Fires Protection Capability (IFPC) Increment 2 Second Interceptor competition. […]
Guess the AI bubble for defense hasn’t popped quite yet. This week, a new company (well, Public Benefit Corporation) called Lancea.AI emerged from stealth, promising to use AI to drive effective strategic communication—especially in high-pressure situations, like intelligence and national security. According to Lancea co-founder Greg Young, the company’s software is built for “adaptive influence.” […]
The NGC2 race is on—and Rune is tagging in. This morning, the IQT-backed sustainment software startup announced that Lockheed Martin has tapped them to bring a little bit of their contested logistics magic to the prime’s NGC2 prototype OTA contract, awarded in September. Clean slate: As a refresher, the Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) […]
The defense tech pond-hopping is continuing in full force. On Tuesday, Virginia-based eVTOL, drone, and avionics holding company AIRO announced that their Phoenix, Arizona, facility has pumped out the first US-made batch of their Danish subsidiary’s flagship Group 1 ISR drone, the RQ-35 Heidrun. On a roll: Founded back in 2005, AIRO has rolled up […]
In case you hadn’t noticed, two things have really defined the modern battlespace: Cameras are pretty much everywhere, and GPS navigation could be going the way of the sextant. On Tuesday, Vantor and Niantic Spatial announced they’re teaming up to build a unified visual positioning system (VPS) that combines Vantor’s aerial intelligence with Niantic’s ground-based […]
