Lest you forgot amidst the chaos of, well, everything, there is still a war waging in Ukraine. In July alone, Russia has launched its largest drone attacks so far on the country, allegedly assassinated a high-level intelligence officer, and killed at least 232 civilians, making this the deadliest month of the war in about three […]
Drones are having a moment. Last Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth released a memo that the Pentagon would be making some big changes to the way it buys, uses, and trains with drones. In true showman fashion, he announced the changes in a viral video set to Metallica’s Enter Sandman, posted on X with a […]
Like kids on Christmas morning, the defense tech world waits up each year for Silicon Valley Defense Group’s NatSec100 report—the nonprofit’s annual ranking and analysis of the top 100 venture-backed, dual-use and defense tech companies shaping US national security innovation. This week, the report finally dropped. Seeing green: The long and short of it is […]
Well, it seems the Pentagon is taking the matter of rare earths into its own hands. Yesterday, the DoD announced it’s buying $400M of convertible preferred shares in Las Vegas-based rare earths mining company MP Materials, making it the company’s largest stakeholder with a 15% stake. The DoD will also issue MP a $150M loan […]
Turns out the defense companies are teaming up across the pond, too. Yesterday, Germany-based autonomous unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) company ARX Robotics announced it’s forming a “software-defined defense mobility” partnership with German propulsion and drivetrain prime RENK Group. According to the two companies, the team-up will allow them to rapidly scale up production of UGVs […]
Focusing on a single domain is so 2024. This morning, Virginia-based DEFCON AI announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that their AI-powered logistics and mobility decision-making software (called ARTIV) is going from air-focused to multi-modal. We’re talking air, land, and sea, baby. Plus, they’ll be testing this new multi-modal product at Talisman Sabre, the […]
Most people wouldn’t get too excited about the release of a thousand-page bill draft. But for the defense tech world, there’s a lot to smile about in the Chairman’s Mark of the FY26 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). For those lucky enough not to spend a lot of time on Capitol Hill: The Chairman’s Mark […]
Have you ever thought, hey, wouldn’t it be great if special ops could use ChatGPT for everything like the rest of us? Well, now they can—sort of. Yesterday, US Special Operations Command announced that they’ve adopted an enterprise-wide generative AI platform called SOFchat, built by a company called Legion Intelligence. The initial contract with Legion […]
Turns out the threat from Iran extends to the defense industry, too. Last week, buried somewhere in the 2025 news cycle, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency put out a joint statement with the DoD’s Cyber Crime Center (DC3), NSA, and FBI warning that US defense companies face heightened risk from Iranian cyberattacks. The statement […]
Looks like the primes still have something going for them after all. This morning, unmanned surface vessel (USV) company HavocAI announced that it’s teaming up with Lockheed Martin to beef up its medium USV fleet. HavocAI CEO Paul Lwin told Tectonic that the most critical part of the partnership will be integrating Lockheed’s advanced sensors […]
