Over the course of America’s war with Iran, Iranian drones and missiles have hit US radars, aircraft, and the most critical of critical infrastructure in the age of AI: data centers. Russia, too, is increasingly targeting Ukraine’s data centers, “seeking to disrupt the flow of information,” Ukrainian foreign minister Andriy Sybiha wrote on X. Those […]
The University of California’s investment fund and Baillie Gifford led the Portuguese drone company’s latest round.
There’s been a whole lot of lessons learned from the war in Ukraine, but one of the biggest is that the modern battlefield is rife with jamming, spoofing, and electronic warfare. For vehicles and troops operating in that environment, knowing where to go when signals—especially GPS—get jammed gets pretty tricky. TERN thinks it has the […]
It’s really a big week around here for the nuts and bolts of defense tech, huh? But lock in. Because this one is super interesting. (At least we think so). This morning, quantum sensing startup Mesa Quantum revealed in an exclusive release to Tectonic that it’s raised $11.8M in funding led by Playground Global, bringing […]
Remember how we keep saying some of the most important, cutting-edge defense tech isn’t necessarily the flying, sexy stuff? Adyton’s here to prove our point, and it looks like the Army agrees. The Dallas-based military operations software startup’s decentralized, peer-to-peer data fusion, communications, and inventory management platform, called Atlas, is rolling out on the Army’s […]
Tectonic was on the ground at a gathering of defense officials, investors, and execs in Austin last week.
All those shiny fun boats, drones, interceptors, and missiles you guys make are fun and all, but they’re not all that helpful if they don’t have reliable comms to, like, tell them where to go. Luckily, Sweden-based TERASi is here to help—and they’ve now got a whole new pile of cash to help them do […]
The DDP plans to order 60,000 FPV drones from top performers in Gauntlet 2, including 14,000 from Neros.
It’s a boom time in the boom business, especially for the biggest purveyor of boom and zoom in the game. Yesterday, defense giant Lockheed Martin announced that it won a $1.2B IDIQ contract for the second increment of the Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM), which are replacing the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) in the Army’s […]
The capital comes on the heels of SYOS securing a £30M UK MoD drone order for Ukraine.
