HII Teams Up with GrayMatter and Path for Robotic Shipbuilding
The multi-year deal is worth up to a whopping $900M.
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Exclusive: Vatn Touches Down in Taiwan
The deal with NCSIST coincides with Vatn’s formation of a Taiwanese subsidiary, CEO Nelson Mills told Tectonic.
Exclusive: Ondas Inks the NFL’s First Counter-Drone Deal
The Jaguars tapped Ondas subsidiary Sentrycs to deploy its drone detection and takeover tech at its stadium this season.
Atlas Motion Emerges from Stealth with $11.5M in Funding
So long, unsexy side of defense. The whole supply chain thing is getting sexier and sexier by the day. This morning, a new startup called Atlas Motion emerged from stealth with $11.5M in funding led by Greycroft to build motors and actuators for drones, robotics, and other defense platforms. If you’re sitting there like, okay, […]
Hadrian Quintuples Valuation After $1.37B Series D
“This really enables us to do is massively expand our footprint and capabilities,” CEO Chris Power said.
Aurelius Raises $40M Series A for Laser Weapons
Pew, pew baby. It’s time to talk about lasers again. This morning, directed energy weapons startup Aurelius announced that it’s raised a $40M Series A to scale up production of its flagship Archimedes laser c-UAS platform. “We will use this to…expand our capacity to produce systems, build out our team, [and] build out manufacturing and […]
Mariana Minerals Raises $310M Series B
Lock in, kids. We’re playing with rocks today. Yesterday, AI-powered mining and refining company Mariana Minerals announced that it’s raised a $310M Series B led by Khosla Ventures, bringing total funding to about $400M. Mariana CEO and co-founder Turner Caldwell told Tectonic that they’ll use the funding to scale up their current mining operations—Copper One […]
JIATF-401 Rolls Out Amazon-Style Counter-Drone Marketplace
You can buy pretty much anything on Amazon, but military equipment is (so far) off-limits. Luckily for all of the shopaholic soldiers out there, the Pentagon’s JIATF-401 counter-drone task force is taking a page out of Amazon’s book and building Prime for the primes (and startups). Today, they officially unveiled an online marketplace for companies […]
Valar Atomics Raises $1B Series B Led by Sequoia
The nuclear startup world is going, well, nuclear. Yesterday, El Segundo-based Valar Atomics announced a whopping $1B Series B led by Sequoia Capital. The raise comes hot on the heels of the three-year-old startup’s microreactor hitting criticality (when a nuclear chain reaction becomes self-sustaining) in the Department of Energy’s Reactor Pilot Program, a partnership with […]
Army Taps Rheinmetall-led Team for Sustainment UGVs
Looks like the Army’s keeping its foot on the gas in its push for more ground autonomy. On Friday, American Rheinmetall announced that it’s snagged a contract to serve as the prime integrator for a team of companies—Harbinger, Forterra, and Primordial Labs—that will develop autonomous logistics ground vehicles for the Army’s Project Sustainment initiative. Ghost […]