If you thought you’d heard the last of the LUCAS program, think again. Yesterday, orchestration startup NODA AI announced that it’s won a $10M contract with the Pentagon to develop MAESTRO (Multi-Domain Autonomous Enhanced System for Tactical Reasoning and Orchestration), algorithms designed “to project commander’s intent into coordinated autonomous action across air, maritime, ground, and […]
Well, the hottest missile startup you probably haven’t heard of is having a very exciting July. Yesterday, missile startup CoAspire announced that the US Navy has selected a ground-launched variant of its Rapidly Adaptable Affordable Cruise Missile-Extended Range (RAACM-ER) for its Coalition Heterogeneous Affordable Offensive Strike (CHAOS) program. Under a $70M OTA, the company “will […]
There’s a popular saying that we know less about the ocean than space. Andrenam is on a mission to change that. The California-based startup is building a distributed network of underwater acoustic sensors and the AI-powered software to process all of the data they collect. That fits cleanly into the whole “maritime is all the […]
Allen Control Systems certainly isn’t resting on its laurels after raising $200M at a multi-billion-dollar valuation. The Austin-based counter-drone startup announced this week that the Marine Corps has selected its Bullfrog robo-machine gun for the Light Marine Air Defense Integrated System (LMADIS), the service’s most expeditionary vehicle-based c-UAS platform, under its broader Ground Based Air […]
Remember all those videos of Ukrainian sea drones taking out Russia’s Black Sea Fleet? Well, the company making those is headed stateside under a new deal with a US boat-builder. Yesterday, British-Ukrainian defense tech startup UFORCE announced that it’s inked a deal with Oregon-based Special Operations-focused boat-builder ReconCraft to produce its now-famous MAGURA USVs on […]
Well, the guys over at Twenty are having quite the summer. Yesterday, just about a month after announcing their $100M Series B, the offensive cyber warfare startup announced that it’s raised yet another $30M (a Series B extension) from Khosla Ventures at a $1.2B valuation. Founder and CEO Joe Lin told Tectonic that they’d actually […]
Gather round, kids. It’s time to get into the nuts and bolts again. So, you know how most of the tech we know and love is built out of metal? And you know how that can present some, erm, challenges, especially at super-high heats and speeds? And, also, you know how people coat that metal […]
To everyone who likes to bash the primes for not innovating fast enough—watch out, because you might just get what you ask for. At the Farnborough International Airshow in the UK yesterday, Lockheed Martin unveiled two new additions to its portfolio of air defense technologies: a lower-cost version of the Patriot (PAC-3 MSE) called the […]
The mini-fighter-drone competition is (quite literally) heating up. This morning, Shield AI and GE Aerospace announced that they’ve “successfully completed integration, actuation, and engine light-off testing of the advanced Axisymmetric Vectoring Exhaust Nozzle (AVEN) for Shield AI’s X-BAT aircraft,” which they call a “critical milestone in the program’s path to vertical flight.” “X-BAT is designed […]
If we’ve learned one thing from the war in Iran (and, like, years of watching Ukraine), it’s the very real and very urgent need for cheaper air defense systems that can ease the burden on the super-pricey, exquisite interceptors that make up the bulk of America’s defensive capabilities. At the Farnborough International Airshow in the […]
