Well, the European drone dudes certainly aren’t messing around at the Munich Security Conference. Yesterday, German drone giant Quantum Systems (QS) announced that it’s secured €150M ($178M) in financing backed by the European Investment Bank (EIB), Commerzbank, KfW, and Deutsche Bank. The company says the money will be used to “support the company’s continued growth […]
The great American leap across the pond continues. This morning, autonomy giant (and dual-use stan) Applied Intuition announced that it has officially been awarded a UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) Defence and Science Technology Laboratory (DSTL) to “deliver a complete autonomy test bed for ground-launched, near-surface drone swarms.” Applied will lead a consortium of companies—Rowden […]
In case you haven’t noticed, electronic warfare is kind of a big deal right now. From the frontlines of Ukraine to Caracas (apparently), everyone is trying to figure out the best way to jam and spoof their adversaries while avoiding being jammed and spoofed themselves. Enter: Tenna Systems, an Israeli startup building a spectrum intelligence […]
Is it just us, or does it seem like everyone is teaming up right now? This morning, new-age defense tech testing company Nominal announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that it’s officially partnering with Anduril to scale its testing infrastructure across Anduril’s production lines. Nominal CEO Cameron McCord told Tectonic that his company will […]
The mash-ups continue. This morning, Second Front Systems (2F) and UK-based Valarian announced a strategic partnership to pair up Second Front’s government-facing commercial tech adoption software with Valarian’s sovereignty-focused data infrastructure to build a “new generation of sovereign-by-design digital solutions with controlled deployment pathways, compartmentalized environments, and audit-first infrastructure.” For the illiterate among us—basically, the […]
We may have just announced the Payload X Tectonic mashup at our summit in March, but we ain’t done talking about space-y defense-y stuff yet. This morning, German thermal intelligence company constellr announced that it’s raised a €37M ($44M) Series A led by Alpine Space Ventures and Lakestar. The company says it will use the […]
Well, the UK is (kind of) putting its money where its mouth is? At the very least, they’ve got an all-star on their naming committee. On Friday, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced that they’d officially carried out their first-ever “Dragon’s Den” style competition, where ten defense and dual-use startups (per the MoD) pitched […]
Look out, world. The defense tech bros are teaming up across the Atlantic. Yesterday, Croatian drone wunderkind and California-based drone and additive manufacturing company Firestorm announced that they’re officially teaming up to 3D print Orqa’s teeny-tiny FPVs for frontline operators. According to Firestorm CEO Dan Magy and Orqa CEO Srdjan Kovacevic, both companies and customers […]
We’ve talked a lot around here about how AI is changing the way wars are fought, but we haven’t spent all that much time talking about how it’s going to change the way intelligence is gathered and analyzed. That changes today. This morning, AI-powered intelligence company Whitespace announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that […]
If anyone was hoping that 2026 was going to be a bit chiller in defense tech land than 2025, well, shit luck for you. Yesterday, flight autonomy company Skyryse announced that it’s raised a whopping $300M Series C, bringing its valuation to $1.15B. (Unicorn status, baby!) The round was led by Autopilot Ventures and Fidelity […]
