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In case you missed it, earlier this month, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issued a memo outlining his plan to make the Pentagon “an ‘AI-first’ warfighting force across all components, from front to back.”  San Francisco-based military AI startup Legion Intelligence is taking him up on that. Yesterday, the company launched a new tool called […]

Well, it seems the whole “factory of the future” thing is really happening.  This morning, Anduril released a year-one update on its Arsenal-1 production facility in Ohio—the $1B, 5M+ square foot mega factory the company announced it was building last January. According to the release, the walls are up on the first two buildings, the […]

If all goes according to plan, Antares Nuclear and a handful of other nuclear startups will have a lot more to celebrate on July 4 than Independence Day.  Earlier this week, Antares, an LA-based space and defense-focused nuclear fission startup, moved closer to turning on its microreactor after the Department of Energy approved its Preliminary […]

Turns out teamwork really does make the dream work.  Last week, Lockheed Martin and its teammates showed off the first version of their Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) prototype to the Army’s 25th Infantry Division during the Lightning Surge 1 exercises in Hawaii. Reboot: As a refresher, Lockheed was awarded a $26M OTA in […]

The Anduril empire just keeps on growing. Yesterday, the defense tech giant announced that it’s opening up a new 1M+ square-foot campus in Long Beach, CA, where the firm (can’t really call it a startup anymore, can we?) says it will carry out everything from software development to R&D. An Anduril spokesperson told Tectonic that […]

It’s a Picogrid party, and everyone’s invited.  Today, in an exclusive release to Tectonic, integration startup Picogrid announced that the US Army tapped them to make sure a whole bunch of different sensors, radars, C2 systems, and effectors worked together during a recent sensor-to-shooter counter-drone and force-maneuver exercise at the National Training Center in the […]

Applied Intuition may have cut its teeth in commercial autonomous vehicle software, but the $15B Silicon Valley hotshot is taking the defense world by storm—including on some of the Pentagon’s most ambitious projects.  We’re talking Golden Dome, baby.  Today, in an exclusive release to Tectonic, Applied Intuition announced that they’ve teamed up with the Department […]

What’s AI-powered, has many limbs, and will soon be climbing all over even more of the Navy’s most expensive, mission-critical components? Gecko Robotics, as it turns out. This morning, the PA-based robotics company announced in an exclusive release toTectonic that it’s officially teaming up with major US Navy supplier Trident Maritime Systems to “deploy advanced […]