Told you it was a big day for the backend side of defense. This morning, Nikon SLM Solutions—a unit of Nikon Advanced Manufacturing—announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that shipbuilding giant HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division has placed a second order for its NXG 600E metal additive manufacturing system. Hamid Zarringhalam, CEO of […]
Today’s a pretty big day for all of the companies that make the defense tech world we know and love tick. This morning, cybersecurity company RADICL announced that it’s raised a $31M Series A led by Paladin Capital Group, with participation from funds including Access Venture Partners, Denver Ventures, and Cervin Ventures. RADICL Co-Founder and […]
HavocAI is putting the collab in collaborative autonomy. This morning, in an exclusive release to Tectonic, Rhode Island-based maritime autonomy startup HavocAI announced a partnership to put its collaborative autonomy software on Tideman Marine’s six-meter Viper unmanned surface vessel (USV). Boat buddies: In case you’re new around here, HavocAI, which raised $85M in October, has […]
Emil Michael is officially assembling his defense tech Power Rangers. Just two months after announcing the six “critical technology areas” (CTAs) that the DoD will focus on for capability development, on Friday, the Pentagon CTO announced the six guys (yes, they’re all guys) that will lead the priority tech areas. Leaders tapped include the newly […]
Looks like the White House just can’t quench its thirst for the minerally good stuff. This morning, Bloomberg reported that the Trump administration is set to launch a critical mineral stockpile, called Project Vault, backed by $12B in seed money split between $1.67B in private capital and a $10B loan from the US Export-Import Bank. […]
Well, we all saw this one coming. Right on the heels of a deal with the Pentagon to triple Patriot missile interceptor output, Lockheed Martin ($LMT) took things up a notch yesterday, announcing an agreement to quadruple production of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors over the next seven years. For all the prime-bashing, […]
The boys in Bozeman are back with some news. Yesterday, Montana-based mapping and intelligence startup Reveal Technology announced that it’s snapped up Anomaly Six (A6), a “a multi-domain digital intelligence company,” and will integrate “A6’s global location and behavioral-pattern solutions with Reveal’s autonomous tactical ecosystem.” In normal-people speak? Reveal is folding A6’s ability to track […]
Overland AI just keeps notching wins. Yesterday—hot off winning the Army’s xTechOverwatch competition—the ground autonomy startup announced that it’s won a $2M Army contract to “put autonomous ground vehicles in the hands of 1st Cavalry Division Troopers.” Thought the whole idea was that hands weren’t necessary, but who are we to say? Rise of the […]
In case you missed it, earlier this month, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issued a memo outlining his plan to make the Pentagon “an ‘AI-first’ warfighting force across all components, from front to back.” San Francisco-based military AI startup Legion Intelligence is taking him up on that. Yesterday, the company launched a new tool called […]
Well, it seems the whole “factory of the future” thing is really happening. This morning, Anduril released a year-one update on its Arsenal-1 production facility in Ohio—the $1B, 5M+ square foot mega factory the company announced it was building last January. According to the release, the walls are up on the first two buildings, the […]
