Watch out, world. The US Army’s kill chain is going mobile. On Tuesday, the Army awarded two contracts worth a combined $192M—$127M to Palantir and $65M to Anduril—to move the Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) AI-powered mobile ground station from prototype into production. Clash of the TITANs: The TITAN program, to back things up, […]
The “Group 2 to Group 3 UAV” will be designed around Divergent’s 3D printing tech from the start.
Every day, satellites, UAVs, airborne sensors, and other collection platforms generate enormous volumes of geospatial data. The challenge is no longer simply collecting information. It is identifying what matters, connecting it with other relevant data, and getting trusted insight to decision-makers fast enough to act.
Vantor really just keeps stacking wins. This morning, the geospatial intelligence giant announced that it’s been awarded a five-year contract (with a one-year base) by the Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific to “deliver maritime intelligence capabilities supporting missions across the Indo-Pacific.” The company could not disclose the value of the contract. Specifically, Vantor says […]
The drone dollars just keep on coming. On Monday, Easy Aerial, a Brooklyn-based manufacturer of defense-focused tethered drones, announced a $20M Series B—led by VC giant Insight Partners—to boost production and deliveries, as well as roll out new products. In the green: Now, if you’ve been keeping up with the defense-tech world, you’ll know that […]
The Navy wants prototypes that cost less than $30M and can operate “directly from the sea.”
A few short weeks after raising a $60M Series B at a $600M valuation, Heaviside is showing no signs of slowing down. Late last week, the California-based super-stealthy, precision-munitions company was awarded a five-year, $99M IDIQ contract with the US Army, but it wasn’t for the tech you might expect from a go-boom startup. Instead, […]
Never really thought we’d be writing about mining and refining as we’re a defense publication and all, but here we are. On Friday, the Pentagon announced two mega investments in yet more domestic critical minerals supply: “To build a robust defense-industrial base, we must secure the foundational materials that enable it,” Assistant Secretary of War […]
You know what sucks? When you’re trying to run an inference model at the edge, and your targeting or planning software completely craps out because, well, you simply don’t have the compute. Happens to the best of us. But luckily, Armada is back with yet another solution for the rather pesky problem of AI and […]
Everywhere you look, M&A activity seems to be slowly picking up. Turns out, the trend has made its way to space, too. Earlier this week, space and defense comms unicorn CesiumAstro snapped up Virginia-based defense mission software firm 1Aardvark, with an eye on expanding its work in missile defense and tracking. The acquisition is CesiumAstro’s […]
