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Canada’s Dominion Dynamics and Ukraine’s TENCORE Team Up for UGVs
Dominion will manufacture Tencore’s UGV in Canada, integrated with its AuraNet autonomy stack.
Heaviside Unveils TYR Loitering Munition
The go-boom side of defense tech kicked off AUSA with a bang. (Sorry.) Day One of the Army’s annual arms expo was jam-packed with a whole bunch of new boom-and-zoom tech, from ballistic missile interceptors (courtesy of Anduril and Lockheed) to next-gen howitzers. Heaviside Industries, though, made a splash on the small-and-speedy side of the […]
Anduril Unveils Steelfin Family of Lower-Cost Interceptors
Anduril unveiled a new “family of highly-configurable, mass-producible surface-to-air interceptor missiles.”
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A Q&A with Alex Fink, US CEO of Swarmer
In case you missed it, the infamous Erik Prince and Swarmer’s US CEO Alex Fink are betting on “air defense as a service”—and now they’re putting numbers behind their pitch. This week—just a month after launch—Vectus Air Defense Systems (not to be confused with Prince’s Vectus Global private military and security company) announced plans to […]
A Q+A with Vectus’ Erik Prince
Tectonic sat down with Erik Prince to chat about his new air defense startup, Vectus.
A Q + A with Matt Cronin, Senior National Security Advisor at a16z
If there is one VC fund you know in the defense tech world, it’s probably Andreesen Horowitz—or a16z, as the cool kids say. The firm—which just raised a casual $15B, including $1.176B for its “national interest” (defense and deep tech) focused American Dynamism fund—has backed some of the biggest names in the game, including Anduril, […]
Q + A: A.J. Bertone, Managing Partner, In-Q-Tel
If you’ve been paying attention to the past year of Tectonic (!!), you’ll recognize a sneaky three-letter acronym that pops up on a lot of defense tech cap tables: IQT. For those lucky enough not to be in the know, that stands for In-Q-Tel, a not-for-profit venture fund backed by the US government and investing […]