Well, it’s shaping up to be quite the week in European defense. This morning, “defense-as-a-service” company Tiberius Aerospace announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that it has raised a $4.5M founders’ round, backed by Never Lift Ventures, Blacklake, firedrop VC, Beaten Zone Ventures, and other strategic investors. Just last week, the company also announced […]
Ask anyone in defense tech, and they’ll all agree that drones are great. The only issue is that there are too many different types of them to make them work together. Well, Auterion might have the solution. On Wednesday, German-American autonomy startup Auterion launched Nemyx, a new swarm strike software that allows different drone models […]
When Tectonic covered drone boat startup Kraken’s partnership with German shipbuilder NVL last week, the company’s CEO Mal Crease said that software is becoming “increasingly important” and hinted at some partnerships in the works. Well, we now know why he was being coy. On Thursday, Kraken teamed up with autonomy software development juggernaut Applied Intuition […]
It’s a big day for partnerships in the defense tech world. On Thursday, white-hot military logistics startup Rune Technologies—fresh off a $24M Series A—announced a partnership with supply chain visualization company Altana to expand Rune’s defense sustainment software capabilities. Friendship really does make the world go round. Making unsexy sexy: Rune, led by Anduril alums […]
Break out the popcorn, y’all. Yesterday, the Army announced its second award for Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) prototyping—this time, a $26M 16-month OTA to a team led by Lockheed Martin. The super-prime and its team will deliver their prototype to the 25th Infantry Division. This comes a little over a month after the […]
Death, taxes, and the primes hopping on the drone hype train. On Friday, L3Harris Technologies announced a “new Counter-Unmanned Systems (C-UxS) initiative” to “overcome unmanned threats across the air, land and sea domains.” Welcome to the club. The company said the “new effort provides expanded and customized C-UxS offerings by combining existing solutions with other […]
One cat, two cat, Red Cat, Blue…Ops? (Sorry.) Earlier this week, aerial drone-maker Red Cat Holdings ($RCAT) announced the launch of a maritime division called Blue Ops, diving headfirst into the ever-growing unmanned surface vehicle (USV) space. Maritime autonomy, all the rage, et cetera, et cetera. Sky to sea: So far, Red Cat’s eyes have […]
Who said the primes don’t move fast enough? Sixteen months after they scored a contract to build an autonomous friend for fighter jets (technical term), General Atomics’ YFQ-42A Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) took flight on Wednesday. For now, GA has first-flight bragging rights, but Anduril—the other company selected for the CCA program—says it is close […]
Looks like we’re on a bit of a maritime kick today. This morning, unmanned surface vessel (USV) company Saildrone announced that its 65-foot Surveyor vessel has received full classification from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS). Now, what does that mean for us non-seafaring laypeople? Basically, the company’s big-boy sailboat drone has been inspected and […]
We told you that energetics were having a moment. This morning, rocket motor startup Firehawk Aerospace announced that it has completed a successful flight test of its 3D-printed GMLRS-class analog hybrid rocket engine as part of its ongoing Phase III SBIR contract with the Army Applications Laboratory (AAL). According to Firehawk, the hybrid rocket system […]
