The United Kingdom wants more drones, and fast. Yesterday, the MoD’s Defense and Security Accelerator (DASA) announced phase two of its Innovation in Support of Operations competition, aimed at bringing British defense up to date. The MoD is looking to fund: UK-registered companies can apply with projects that will take up to 4 months and […]
It’s about time we talked about the elephant in the room: China. Step into any defense tech conference, and the threat from Beijing looms large. China’s military is building up and adopting cutting-edge tech at an unprecedented pace, and the US and its allies are failing to keep up, or so the saying goes.. But […]
Anduril ain’t stopping. This morning, the defense tech darling announced yet another contract with the DoD—this time, they locked in an $86M three-year award to help US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) develop and deploy software to manage its autonomous systems. Anduril will provide USSOCOM with its ready-made AI-powered Lattice mission autonomy software, which the command […]
Remember that thing we said about contested environments being the talk of the town? Turns out Saildrone agrees. This morning, the unmanned surface vessel (USV) company announced that it is deploying software on its Voyager vessels that enables them to operate in GPS-denied environments. The software was successfully deployed and tested as part of the […]
Remember that winning streak we said Anduril was on? Well, turns out it’s still going. This morning, the company’s rocket motor systems arm announced that it has been selected by the US Army to build a 4.75-inch solid rocket motor (SRM) for long-range precision rocket artillery missions. Anduril was awarded a $14.3M Defense Production Act […]
Everyone, it seems, wants a factory of the future. And if you already have one, it seems that everyone wants to use it. Today, Mach Industries announced that it’s partnering with hydrogen-powered drone maker Heven to ramp up UAV production at its Forge facility in Huntington Beach. Heven will use Mach’s vertically integrated production process […]
What if you could take any vehicle and just, like, make it autonomous? Well, now you can. This morning, Overland AI unveiled an autonomy “upfit kit” called SPARK that can plug and play into pretty much any ground vehicle, from a Camry to a tank, and turn it into a drone. This means that all […]
Palantir ($PLTR) has a whole bunch of new friends. At the company’s annual AIPCon on Thursday, the software and data behemoth announced a slew of partnerships, including with defense darlings Epirus, Red Cat, Saildrone, and Saronic. Amidst surging interest in new defense tech, Palantir’s Warp Speed software will help these companies to scale up and […]
Looks like DOGE isn’t alone—the robots are coming for the government jobs, too. Last week, generative AI company Danti announced that its intelligence gathering LLM would be deployed across the US federal government, allowing US analysts to view synthesized government-gathered data on a handy-dandy platform. Think of it as ChatGPT, but for intelligence. “Think analysts […]
Let the age of super-charged drone boats begin. Unmanned surface vehicle (USV) maker Saildrone announced this morning that it entered a strategic partnership with software and data behemoth Palantir ($PLTR). Saildrone will use Palantir’s technology up and down its stack, from manufacturing, to fleet operations, to managing autonomous assets. The company will use Palantir’s Warp […]
