It’s a Picogrid party, and everyone’s invited. Today, in an exclusive release to Tectonic, integration startup Picogrid announced that the US Army tapped them to make sure a whole bunch of different sensors, radars, C2 systems, and effectors worked together during a recent sensor-to-shooter counter-drone and force-maneuver exercise at the National Training Center in the […]
Applied Intuition may have cut its teeth in commercial autonomous vehicle software, but the $15B Silicon Valley hotshot is taking the defense world by storm—including on some of the Pentagon’s most ambitious projects. We’re talking Golden Dome, baby. Today, in an exclusive release to Tectonic, Applied Intuition announced that they’ve teamed up with the Department […]
If there is one VC fund you know in the defense tech world, it’s probably Andreesen Horowitz—or a16z, as the cool kids say. The firm—which just raised a casual $15B, including $1.176B for its “national interest” (defense and deep tech) focused American Dynamism fund—has backed some of the biggest names in the game, including Anduril, […]
What’s AI-powered, has many limbs, and will soon be climbing all over even more of the Navy’s most expensive, mission-critical components? Gecko Robotics, as it turns out. This morning, the PA-based robotics company announced in an exclusive release toTectonic that it’s officially teaming up with major US Navy supplier Trident Maritime Systems to “deploy advanced […]
Aviation autonomy is all the rage these days, but Beacon AI is less concerned with automating the piloting part and more focused on all of the brain-draining, paper-pushing stuff pilots and crews have to do before takeoff and in the air. And the Air Force is taking notice. On Wednesday, in an exclusive release to […]
Everywhere you look in NATO, defense tech startups are popping off, but our friendly neighbors up north have (for the most part) stayed out of the spotlight. Dominion Dynamics wants to change that. On Monday, the Canadian startup announced it has raised $15.2M ($21M CAD) in seed funding to develop a persistent multi-domain surveillance and […]
Well, it would appear that investors’ appetite for rare earths ain’t goin’ nowhere. Yesterday, US rare earths magnet manufacturer Noveon Magnetics announced that it’s closed a $215M Series C led by a whopping $200M investment from One Investment Management (OneIM). The company says that this big ol’ pile of cash will fuel “significant growth” of […]
This may come as a departure from Tectonic’s usual lighthearted coverage, but at the end of the day, it’s our responsibility to report on all of the defense tech industry—even the gritty bits. The US Navy’s former Program Executive Officer for Unmanned and Small Combatants (PEO USC), Rear Adm. Kevin Smith, was fired from his […]
Seasats is making a splash in the unmanned surface vessel (USV) space. Yesterday, California-based USV startup Seasats announced that it’s been awarded a joint $24M contract with the Navy and Marines under the APFIT program to accelerate production and delivery of its Lightfish USVs. This comes on the heels of the company scoring a $89M […]
The Marines have a bunch o’ Bolts heading their way. On Thursday, defense tech poster child Anduril announced that the US Marine Corps placed a $24M order for 600 of the company’s Bolt-M kamikaze drones under the Organic Precision Fires-Light (OPF-L) program, with deliveries expected between 2026 and 2027. Bolt goes boom: Weighing around 15 […]
