Welp, Anduril is back for more—and this time, in a different hemisphere. In case you missed it, on Tuesday, the defense tech darling announced that its Australian branch has been awarded a $1.12B ($1.7B) contract to deliver a fleet of its Ghost Shark SSK XL autonomous submarine. This is officially Anduril’s first international program of […]
Personally, we would give a lot to be a fly on the wall in the early days of the Defense Innovation Unit (RIP Unit X). Luckily, we know a guy who was there. Enrique Oti—apparently referred to intermittently as “Software Jesus of the Air Force”—was one of the co-founders of DIU, and for much of […]
If you work in the ever-growing unmanned surface vessel (USV) world and are worrying about scale, you might want to look away. On Tuesday, shipbuilding giant Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) announced a new family of ROMULUS USVs—and that the fleet’s flagship is already under construction. Looks like the primes were paying attention to Saronic’s $392M […]
If you thought the defense tech world on this side of the pond comes to a standstill during DSEI, think again. This morning, integration startup Picogrid announced a $3.2M Air Force contract win to bring their Legion software and Helios hardware to help the Air Force’s growing number of autonomous systems play nice. Picogrid has […]
With the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) trade show kicking off in London, we all knew it would be a big week for European defense tech. On Monday, German drone startup Quantum Systems got the ball rolling by announcing a €50M investment in the UK over the next five years. That’s the tea. Quantum […]
Looks like Anduril is doubling down on its mixed reality roots. Yesterday, the defense tech giant confirmed that it’s scored a $159M US Army contract to prototype a night vision and mixed reality system as part of the Soldier Borne Mission Command (SBMC) program, the successor to IVAS. The company said in a statement that […]
Biiiiig day for collabs. This morning, Germany-based defense tech giant Helsing announced that it’s teaming up with ground autonomy company ARX Robotics to “develop an AI-based reconnaissance and strike network for European defence.” The two companies say they will cooperate in Ukraine, as well as on projects in the UK, Germany, and other European countries. […]
Some people like to take things slow. Other people—like Mal Crease—prefer everything at full throttle. The founder and CEO of USV company Kraken Technology came into defense from high-speed boat racing in 2020, and has brought the same obsession with speed and performance that once helped him break world records to the world of unmanned […]
Well, it’s shaping up to be quite the week in European defense. This morning, “defense-as-a-service” company Tiberius Aerospace announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that it has raised a $4.5M founders’ round, backed by Never Lift Ventures, Blacklake, firedrop VC, Beaten Zone Ventures, and other strategic investors. Just last week, the company also announced […]
Ask anyone in defense tech, and they’ll all agree that drones are great. The only issue is that there are too many different types of them to make them work together. Well, Auterion might have the solution. On Wednesday, German-American autonomy startup Auterion launched Nemyx, a new swarm strike software that allows different drone models […]
