First Look: Agon Emerges from Stealth with $30M in Funding
The London- and Berlin-based startup secured $30M across two rounds to train autonomous systems.
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Exclusive: Danti Gets a Makeover, Scores US Air Force Contract
Well, who says an AI-for-defense platform can’t have a major glow-up? This morning, defense and intelligence AI startup Danti announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that they’ve launched the new generation of their platform and secured a fresh contract with the US Air Force. The revamp comes after Danti was used during US Special […]
Leonardo Buys Raft in $450M Deal
Watch out, y’all. The Europeans are coming for your defense tech startups. Leonardo DRS, the US subsidiary of Italian defense giant Leonardo, announced yesterday that it’s snapped up Virginia-based data fusion and AI defense software company Raft in an all-cash deal valued at $450M. The deal, according to Leonardo DRS CEO John Baylouny, “adds proven […]
Applied Intuition Turns AV’s Mayhem 10 Drone into a Swarm
It seems like anywhere autonomy is involved, Applied Intuition finds a way to wiggle in. This time, it’s with defense tech heavyweight AV (FKA AeroVironment). The $15B autonomy software startup announced this morning that it’s teaming up with AV to integrate its Acuity ISR/Strike swarming software into the latter’s Mayhem 10 “launched effects” (fancy term […]
Pentagon Inks Patriot and THAAD Component Deal with L3Harris
The Pentagon’s framework agreements with Lockheed to triple and quadruple Patriot and THAAD production (respectively) made a big splash, but it looks like the department heard that those numbers would be pretty hard to hit if production of their key components didn’t get some love, too. Luckily, they’re moving to fix that missile pickle. Yesterday, […]
Exclusive: Array Labs Raises $21M Led by Mitsubishi Electric
The space-based radar startup’s funding round will fund R&D and its expansion into the Indo-Pacific.
FPF Defense Raises $10M for Interceptors
If you thought you’d seen the last of the new-and-shiny interceptor companies, think again. Late last week, FPF Defense—a new cUAS company founded by former Acting Secretary of Defense and Director of the US National Counterterrorism Center Chris Miller—announced that it’s scored a “strategic investment” co-led by RSE Ventures and Ondas Inc. Miller told Tectonic […]
Antares Raises $470M to Field Military-Focused Microreactors
Antares is focused on deploying its microreactors on military sites by 2028.
BAE Gets the UK Into the CCA Game With Brontanax
The British prime unveiled its bid for the UK MoD’s Storm Fighter collaborative combat aircraft program.
Saronic and Samsung Heavy Industries Team Up
Dare we say 2026 might turn out to be the year of startup-legacy maritime partnerships? Yesterday, unmanned maritime darling Saronic announced that it’s teaming up with Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) to “accelerate the development of autonomy-capable maritime systems and technologies to strengthen America’s shipbuilding industrial base.” Together, the two companies will work on “autonomy and […]