Remember when we said it had been a big week for Forterra? Well, it just got bigger. This morning, the ground autonomy company announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that they have fully acquired networking and secure comms company goTenna for an undisclosed amount. “By integrating goTenna technology into our platform, we’re improving user […]
The much-anticipated defense tech rollup era is in full swing, even on the other side of the pond. This morning, German defense tech darling Helsing, one of Europe’s most valuable startups, announced that it has acquired Blue Ocean, an Australian underwater drone company, to accelerate the development of its unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) program. Looks […]
You know what sucks? When you spend oodles on drone detection and jamming technology, and it doesn’t work because, say, Russia is flying its drones outside of normal frequencies. Well, lucky for us, Danish cUAS company MyDefence has a solution: Today, the company unveiled a new antenna called WideBand XF that can detect drones flying […]
Thought we were done with the partnership news? Think again. This morning, autonomous targeting company AimLock announced that it’s teamed up with ground autonomy startup Overland AI to build its “autonomous targeting and engagement systems” (read: hands-free pew-pew) onto Overland’s ULTRA unmanned vehicle. Sounds like a certain drone-car is getting a lethal glow-up. Big brain: […]
For an industry that hasn’t changed much in decades, the solid rocket motor (SRM) space has been on fire lately. On Tuesday, Anduril announced that it successfully completed a static fire test of an SRM it developed and built for air-to-air weapons with RTX. Looks like everyone’s favorite neo-prime is shaking up yet another industry, […]
Well, it’s been quite the week for Forterra—and it’s only Tuesday. Less than a week after announcing that they’re teaming up with BAE, the ground autonomy company announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that they’re officially unveiling a prototype of the DeepFires autonomous launcher—built with Oshkosh and RTX—at AUSA next week. The autonomous launcher […]
For all those SBIR skeptics out there, this one’s for you. In an exclusive release to Tectonic, San Diego-based small unmanned surface vessel (sUSV) startup Seasats announced today that it’s snagged an $89M ceiling SBIR Phase 3 indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract with the Navy to deliver its Lightfish USVs to the Marine Corps. Talk about […]
In case you—like us—have been flitting between events and trying to keep up with a flood of news in the past few weeks, you may have missed a major piece of news in our corner of the defense tech world: Last week, a delegation from Kyiv was in Washington to hammer out the details of […]
Picogrid is rapidly building up a truly impressive circle of friends. Just two weeks after teaming up with Northrop Grumman’s c-UAS platform, the startup announced late last week that its flagship software integration system, Legion, will be plugging into Palantir’s ultra-popular Maven Smart System (MSS). Picogrid says that Legion will act as a “universal translator,” […]
Well, it seems the DoD, sorry, DoW, has really gotten a taste for critical minerals. Yesterday, Australian-American mining company Nova Minerals ($NVA) announced that it’s scored a $43.4M investment from the Pentagon to build out a production plant for a critical mineral called antimony in Alaska. The funding was awarded under the Defense Production Act […]
