For everyone out there who saw REGENT Craft’s Seagliders when they came out of stealth back in 2021 and thought, “Holy hell, that is cool,” well, good news—a mega pool of investors agrees with you. This morning, the startup—which builds seacraft that are a cross between a hydrofoil, a boat, and an aircraft—announced that it […]
The Army awarded five nuclear companies a collective $2.2B to deploy microreactors on five military installations.
The 155mm shell has been a workhorse of the US military’s artillery arsenal since World War I, but America has had a bit of a hard time, to put it lightly, ramping up production of the over-century-old munition to keep up with renewed demand from US and allied customers. The Pentagon’s looking for some help […]
Now, we know they say when it rains it pours and all that, but, gosh, Castelion is really testing the limits of the phrase. Late yesterday, the US Navy announced that it’s awarded the Torrance, CA-based company an additional $89.99M against its service-wide basic ordering agreement to “provide engineering, technical, logistics, and manufacturing services to […]
If you thought you’d heard the last of the new-age rare earths processing startups, think again. This morning, a new California-based startup called Maglut Heavy Industries emerged from stealth with $3.1M in pre-seed funding and a goal of developing a “chromatography-based platform to process and refine rare earth elements domestically” in the US. (We’ll get […]
The pre-seed round led by Khosla Ventures funds the development of Spike, Mara’s portable full-stack counter-drone system.
If you thought that SRMs and propellant were the only way to launch stuff into the air, well, think again. This morning, new-age launch company Auriga Space unveiled its new containerized Hermes electromagnetic launcher for drone interception and announced that they’ve already completed open-air testing of the system in the Mojave Desert. Basically, as we […]
If 2024 was hot girl summer and 2025 was BRAT summer, then 2026 may well be the summer of the defense tech IPO. (Yes, these all exist in the same cultural reference ecosystem, what are you talking about?) This morning, hypersonics and SRM giant Ursa Major announced that it plans to go public via SPAC […]
The contract gives Army units access to Sandtable’s platform for “integrated mission planning and wargaming support.”
Happy Monday, y’all. We’re pretty amped up today. (Please forgive us; It was right there.) This morning, ruggedized power-for-the-edge company Chariot announced that it’s inked a $7.6M contract with DIU under the Portable Resilient Integrated Storage Module (PRISM) program. “Power availability decides what equipment troops get to bring to the fight,” Chariot Founder and CEO […]
