Well, the European drone dudes certainly aren’t messing around at the Munich Security Conference. Yesterday, German drone giant Quantum Systems (QS) announced that it’s secured €150M ($178M) in financing backed by the European Investment Bank (EIB), Commerzbank, KfW, and Deutsche Bank. The company says the money will be used to “support the company’s continued growth […]
The US has a nuclear waste problem. A startup has an idea on how to fix it—and give all the power-hungry hardware the Pentagon loves a next-gen energy supply. Yesterday, Project Omega emerged from stealth with $12M in funding to scale up its nuclear waste recycling technology and accelerate the development of a battery-sized nuclear […]
The great American leap across the pond continues. This morning, autonomy giant (and dual-use stan) Applied Intuition announced that it has officially been awarded a UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) Defence and Science Technology Laboratory (DSTL) to “deliver a complete autonomy test bed for ground-launched, near-surface drone swarms.” Applied will lead a consortium of companies—Rowden […]
In case you haven’t noticed, electronic warfare is kind of a big deal right now. From the frontlines of Ukraine to Caracas (apparently), everyone is trying to figure out the best way to jam and spoof their adversaries while avoiding being jammed and spoofed themselves. Enter: Tenna Systems, an Israeli startup building a spectrum intelligence […]
Valentine’s Day is around the corner, and defense companies are in the matchmaking spirit. This morning, Boston-based maritime autonomy startup Blue Water Autonomy unveiled its first autonomous surface vessel: A 190-foot big ol’ drone boat designed in partnership with Dutch shipbuilding giant Damen called the “Liberty Class.” We told you maritime autonomy is all the […]
You know what’s better than being on one prototyping team for the Army’s big modernization mega-project? Being on all of ‘em. Right on the heels of joining Lockheed Martin’s Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) prototype team in December, logistics and sustainment software startup Rune announced today that it joined Anduril’s NGC2 team, making them […]
Is it just us, or does it seem like everyone is teaming up right now? This morning, new-age defense tech testing company Nominal announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that it’s officially partnering with Anduril to scale its testing infrastructure across Anduril’s production lines. Nominal CEO Cameron McCord told Tectonic that his company will […]
It’s been a big last few years for small, inexpensive drones (and the companies that build them), but larger platforms have remained pretty firmly in the realm of the expensive and exquisite. Today, in an exclusive release to Tectonic, Florida-based Petrel Technologies emerged from stealth to change that. The startup is building a low-cost, Group […]
The mash-ups continue. This morning, Second Front Systems (2F) and UK-based Valarian announced a strategic partnership to pair up Second Front’s government-facing commercial tech adoption software with Valarian’s sovereignty-focused data infrastructure to build a “new generation of sovereign-by-design digital solutions with controlled deployment pathways, compartmentalized environments, and audit-first infrastructure.” For the illiterate among us—basically, the […]
We may have just announced the Payload X Tectonic mashup at our summit in March, but we ain’t done talking about space-y defense-y stuff yet. This morning, German thermal intelligence company constellr announced that it’s raised a €37M ($44M) Series A led by Alpine Space Ventures and Lakestar. The company says it will use the […]
