The drone dollars just keep on coming. On Monday, Easy Aerial, a Brooklyn-based manufacturer of defense-focused tethered drones, announced a $20M Series B—led by VC giant Insight Partners—to boost production and deliveries, as well as roll out new products. In the green: Now, if you’ve been keeping up with the defense-tech world, you’ll know that […]
The Navy wants prototypes that cost less than $30M and can operate “directly from the sea.”
A few short weeks after raising a $60M Series B at a $600M valuation, Heaviside is showing no signs of slowing down. Late last week, the California-based super-stealthy, precision-munitions company was awarded a five-year, $99M IDIQ contract with the US Army, but it wasn’t for the tech you might expect from a go-boom startup. Instead, […]
Never really thought we’d be writing about mining and refining as we’re a defense publication and all, but here we are. On Friday, the Pentagon announced two mega investments in yet more domestic critical minerals supply: “To build a robust defense-industrial base, we must secure the foundational materials that enable it,” Assistant Secretary of War […]
You know what sucks? When you’re trying to run an inference model at the edge, and your targeting or planning software completely craps out because, well, you simply don’t have the compute. Happens to the best of us. But luckily, Armada is back with yet another solution for the rather pesky problem of AI and […]
Everywhere you look, M&A activity seems to be slowly picking up. Turns out, the trend has made its way to space, too. Earlier this week, space and defense comms unicorn CesiumAstro snapped up Virginia-based defense mission software firm 1Aardvark, with an eye on expanding its work in missile defense and tracking. The acquisition is CesiumAstro’s […]
For everyone out there who saw REGENT Craft’s Seagliders when they came out of stealth back in 2021 and thought, “Holy hell, that is cool,” well, good news—a mega pool of investors agrees with you. This morning, the startup—which builds seacraft that are a cross between a hydrofoil, a boat, and an aircraft—announced that it […]
The Army awarded five nuclear companies a collective $2.2B to deploy microreactors on five military installations.
The 155mm shell has been a workhorse of the US military’s artillery arsenal since World War I, but America has had a bit of a hard time, to put it lightly, ramping up production of the over-century-old munition to keep up with renewed demand from US and allied customers. The Pentagon’s looking for some help […]
Now, we know they say when it rains it pours and all that, but, gosh, Castelion is really testing the limits of the phrase. Late yesterday, the US Navy announced that it’s awarded the Torrance, CA-based company an additional $89.99M against its service-wide basic ordering agreement to “provide engineering, technical, logistics, and manufacturing services to […]
