Catch up on the latest insights into the defense industry.
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Harmattan Scores 5,000-Drone Follow-On Order from France
Just because Eurosatory is over certainly doesn’t mean our friends across the pond are slowing things down. Yesterday, French autonomy startup Harmattan AI announced that the French government has ordered another 5,000 of its Sonora ISR drones, just a year after ordering a first tranche of 1,000. That first batch—part of a program of record… Read More
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STARK Raises €500M at €3.5B Valuation
If you think the defense tech scene is hot in the US, take a look across the pond. Yesterday, German drone startup STARK quietly announced a very chill €500M ($567M) fundraising round led by longtime (in defense startup terms) backers Founders Fund and Sequoia Capital. The two-year-old company told Tectonic that the round put its… Read More
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Booz Allen Buys Ultra I&C Mission Solutions for $720M
Well, gosh darn. Booz Allen ($BAH) is really doubling down on the whole defense tech thing. Yesterday, the government services giant announced that it’s acquiring Ultra I&C Mission Solutions—part of the Cobham Ultra Group—for a cool $720M. When the deal closes (expected by the end of September 2026), Ultra Mission Solutions will become a fully… Read More
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Anduril Tapped to Lead NGC2 Common Data Baseline
Hasn’t been a slow year (or week) for Anduril, to say the least, and it’s about to get a whole lot busier. Yesterday, the US Army announced that it’s selected everyone’s favorite neoprime to lead the common data baseline for its Next-Generation Command and Control (NGC2) effort, tasking the company with making sure all of… Read More
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Traysar Emerges to Take Warfare Underground
Last year, Palmer Luckey said that he believes “the subterranean domain”—rather than sea, air, or space—“will be the defining [warfighting] space, but nobody agrees with me, and every time I talk about it I sound insane to people.” He also said that “a vehicle that moves through the crust of the earth is going to… Read More
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Quantum Systems Makes Serious Land Domain Moves
If you were paying attention to the news coming out of Eurosatory last week, one thing was extremely clear: Everyone (and we mean everyone) is making moves to go cross-domain. And that’s especially true for German defense darling Quantum Systems. Last week, the company made two announcements that solidify its status as very much not… Read More