Frying them with microwaves, shooting them down with robo-machine guns, jamming them—counter-UAS companies keep rolling out a growing and creative array of ways to take down drones. Askari has a different take on it. Rather than building vehicle-based or fixed-site air defense systems, the Atlanta-based startup wants to—quite literally—put interceptors into the hands of frontline […]
Just because Eurosatory is over certainly doesn’t mean our friends across the pond are slowing things down. Yesterday, French autonomy startup Harmattan AI announced that the French government has ordered another 5,000 of its Sonora ISR drones, just a year after ordering a first tranche of 1,000. That first batch—part of a program of record […]
If you think the defense tech scene is hot in the US, take a look across the pond. Yesterday, German drone startup STARK quietly announced a very chill €500M ($567M) fundraising round led by longtime (in defense startup terms) backers Founders Fund and Sequoia Capital. The two-year-old company told Tectonic that the round put its […]
Well, gosh darn. Booz Allen ($BAH) is really doubling down on the whole defense tech thing. Yesterday, the government services giant announced that it’s acquiring Ultra I&C Mission Solutions—part of the Cobham Ultra Group—for a cool $720M. When the deal closes (expected by the end of September 2026), Ultra Mission Solutions will become a fully […]
Hasn’t been a slow year (or week) for Anduril, to say the least, and it’s about to get a whole lot busier. Yesterday, the US Army announced that it’s selected everyone’s favorite neoprime to lead the common data baseline for its Next-Generation Command and Control (NGC2) effort, tasking the company with making sure all of […]
Last year, Palmer Luckey said that he believes “the subterranean domain”—rather than sea, air, or space—“will be the defining [warfighting] space, but nobody agrees with me, and every time I talk about it I sound insane to people.” He also said that “a vehicle that moves through the crust of the earth is going to […]
If you were paying attention to the news coming out of Eurosatory last week, one thing was extremely clear: Everyone (and we mean everyone) is making moves to go cross-domain. And that’s especially true for German defense darling Quantum Systems. Last week, the company made two announcements that solidify its status as very much not […]
Ondas had quite the week at Eurosatory. At the defense expo in Paris, the US-based autonomous systems roll-up company unveiled a slew of new tech under its “Autonomy at First Contact” vision, including a ground robot, an autonomous defense orchestration system, and a couple of new counter-drone systems. In that broader announcement, Ondas hinted that […]
Well, sounds like those loyal wingman dreams are becoming a reality. Yesterday, the Air Force announced that they’ve awarded production contracts to Anduril and General Atomics for the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, a whole four months ahead of schedule. The contracts (amount undisclosed) will cover “Increment 1 air vehicles as well as mission autonomy software, […]
Forget everything we’ve said about contested logistics being unsexy—it’s about as hot as it gets right now, and Rune’s carving quite a nice niche for itself in the space. In an exclusive release to Tectonic this morning, the contested logistics and frontline sustainment AI startup announced its biggest win yet: A five-year, $99M contract with […]
