4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (571+ words) If you thought Mach Industries’ $300M raise earlier this summer was a lot of money, you’re gonna want to sit down for this one. Turns out Mach’s money moves were just heating up. In the few short months since hitting a…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (775+ words) Y’all ever heard the one about the deep-precision-strike company that built missiles for a whole two years before emerging from stealth with a quarter of a million in funding and a cap table stacked with the biggest names in defense…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (623+ words) Question: What do you get when you combine “maritime is all the rage” with “unsexy is the new sexy”? Answer: Bulwark Dynamics, an unmanned surface vessel startup laser-focused on contested logistics. That pitch has caught the eye of some early…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (386+ words) In case you missed it: A whole new generation of defense companies is betting that novel hardware, software, and manufacturing approaches will help the Pentagon maximize the bang for its buck. Red Cell Partners thinks that an entirely new contracting…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (398+ words) Watch out, world. The US Army’s kill chain is going mobile. On Tuesday, the Army awarded two contracts worth a combined $192M—$127M to Palantir and $65M to Anduril—to move the Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) AI-powered mobile ground station from…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (611+ words) It’s been a big year for both the drone and factory-of-the-future world so far, so it’s only right that the two come together. In an exclusive announcement to Tectonic this morning, drone-maker Aevex ($AVEX) and additive manufacturing giant Divergent revealed…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (505+ words) A few short weeks after raising a $60M Series B at a $600M valuation, Heaviside is showing no signs of slowing down. Late last week, the California-based super-stealthy, precision-munitions company was awarded a five-year, $99M IDIQ contract with the US Army, but it…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (606+ words) The interceptor space is getting mighty busy these days, but a San Francisco-based startup is betting it’ll be able to stand out from the crowd by making them teeny tiny, mass-deployable, and purpose-built to counter FPV swarm attacks. Some of…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (567+ words) In case you hadn’t noticed, there is a whole lot of hype around bringing AI into warfighting functions. This kind of AI-for-simulation and planning is exactly what one Atlanta-based startup is bringing to the table (sorry), and it turns out…...

3+ week, 6+ hour ago   (480+ words) Happy Monday, y’all. We’re pretty amped up today. (Please forgive us; It was right there.) This morning, ruggedized power-for-the-edge company Chariot announced that it’s inked a $7.6M contract with DIU under the Portable Resilient Integrated Storage Module (PRISM) program. “Power availability…...