We can all breathe a sigh of relief (for now). The NDAA is through the House. Everyone’s favorite must-pass bill, which predictably got a whole lot more culture-war-y after it left the House Armed Services Committee, passed the chamber in a narrow (by NDAA standards) party-line 231-196 vote yesterday. Whether the Senate passes its version […]
We’ve brought you a lot of European news out of DSEI this week, so we thought on this lovely Friday, we’d take a quick hop over to the Indo-Pacific. Yesterday, Shield AI announced that they’ve signed a teaming agreement with Taiwanese defense prime Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC). The two companies say they will work […]
The mash-ups continue during DSEI week. Yesterday, Estonia-based missile startup Frankenburg Technologies announced that it’s teamed up with NiDAR c-UAS and surveillance company MARSS to integrate Frankenburg’s missiles into MARSS’ C4 platform. The goal, according to the two companies, is to build a “layered defence solution that combines affordability, scalability, and cutting-edge AI to protect […]
Palantir can’t be stopped. On Wednesday, the defense and intelligence software giant with a $395B market cap won a contract to provide “all Marines—from tactical units within the Fleet Marine Force (FMF) to the Supporting Establishment—with access to [Palantir’s Maven Smart System],” the Marine Corps announced. Add this to the company’s $10B Army contract, and […]
Welp, Anduril is back for more—and this time, in a different hemisphere. In case you missed it, on Tuesday, the defense tech darling announced that its Australian branch has been awarded a $1.12B ($1.7B) contract to deliver a fleet of its Ghost Shark SSK XL autonomous submarine. This is officially Anduril’s first international program of […]
Personally, we would give a lot to be a fly on the wall in the early days of the Defense Innovation Unit (RIP Unit X). Luckily, we know a guy who was there. Enrique Oti—apparently referred to intermittently as “Software Jesus of the Air Force”—was one of the co-founders of DIU, and for much of […]
If you work in the ever-growing unmanned surface vessel (USV) world and are worrying about scale, you might want to look away. On Tuesday, shipbuilding giant Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) announced a new family of ROMULUS USVs—and that the fleet’s flagship is already under construction. Looks like the primes were paying attention to Saronic’s $392M […]
If you thought the defense tech world on this side of the pond comes to a standstill during DSEI, think again. This morning, integration startup Picogrid announced a $3.2M Air Force contract win to bring their Legion software and Helios hardware to help the Air Force’s growing number of autonomous systems play nice. Picogrid has […]
With the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) trade show kicking off in London, we all knew it would be a big week for European defense tech. On Monday, German drone startup Quantum Systems got the ball rolling by announcing a €50M investment in the UK over the next five years. That’s the tea. Quantum […]
Looks like Anduril is doubling down on its mixed reality roots. Yesterday, the defense tech giant confirmed that it’s scored a $159M US Army contract to prototype a night vision and mixed reality system as part of the Soldier Borne Mission Command (SBMC) program, the successor to IVAS. The company said in a statement that […]
