Turns out the defense companies are teaming up across the pond, too. Yesterday, Germany-based autonomous unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) company ARX Robotics announced it’s forming a “software-defined defense mobility” partnership with German propulsion and drivetrain prime RENK Group. According to the two companies, the team-up will allow them to rapidly scale up production of UGVs […]
Focusing on a single domain is so 2024. This morning, Virginia-based DEFCON AI announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that their AI-powered logistics and mobility decision-making software (called ARTIV) is going from air-focused to multi-modal. We’re talking air, land, and sea, baby. Plus, they’ll be testing this new multi-modal product at Talisman Sabre, the […]
Have you ever thought, hey, wouldn’t it be great if special ops could use ChatGPT for everything like the rest of us? Well, now they can—sort of. Yesterday, US Special Operations Command announced that they’ve adopted an enterprise-wide generative AI platform called SOFchat, built by a company called Legion Intelligence. The initial contract with Legion […]
Turns out the threat from Iran extends to the defense industry, too. Last week, buried somewhere in the 2025 news cycle, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency put out a joint statement with the DoD’s Cyber Crime Center (DC3), NSA, and FBI warning that US defense companies face heightened risk from Iranian cyberattacks. The statement […]
Looks like the primes still have something going for them after all. This morning, unmanned surface vessel (USV) company HavocAI announced that it’s teaming up with Lockheed Martin to beef up its medium USV fleet. HavocAI CEO Paul Lwin told Tectonic that the most critical part of the partnership will be integrating Lockheed’s advanced sensors […]
Looks like Rise8 is, well, on the rise. Earlier today, the Tampa-based software delivery startup announced that it won a contract with the US Space Force’s Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution (FORGE) program to provide continuous software delivery capabilities. In layman’s terms, that means the company will help build out the software pipeline that helps […]
By this point, we all get the gist of what happened last weekend. Super-early Sunday morning Tehran time, US B-2 stealth bombers flew 37 hours nonstop from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri to Iran and back, dropping more than a dozen 30,000-pound “bunker buster” GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOPs) on three Iranian nuclear enrichment […]
Young money: Last Wednesday, California-based defense start-up Mach Industries made a hell of an announcement: they raised a $100M Series B led by Sequoia Capital and Khosla Ventures at a $470M valuation. Impressive stuff, but even more impressive when you consider that the company was founded just two years ago by Ethan Thornton, a now-21-year-old […]
Another day, another huge piece of news for European defense tech. This morning, Anduril announced a strategic partnership with German defense prime Rheinmetall to co-produce a suite of autonomous air systems and propulsion capabilities for militaries on the continent. As we said yesterday: Zeitenwende, indeed. Anduril and Rheinmetall’s partnership will center around three capabilities: The […]
In a week that has seen some big investments in defense tech (looking at you, Applied Intuition), we’ve got yet another heavy hitter: German AI and drone company Helsing announced Tuesday that they’ve raised $691M in a Series D funding round, valuing it at nearly $14B. Did we mention that it’s only Tuesday?
