Turns out 2026 is a great year to be a low-cost interceptor company. This morning, launch ...

You know the best thing about raising a $160M Series D? When you end up raising $275M. This week, aviation autonomy startup ...

Remember when all of us here in defense tech land were just kind of a footnote when we talked about defense production and ...

As anyone reading this newsletter knows, the counter-drone market is pretty dang hot right now. The problem is that all those ...

With the Drone Dominance Program’s Gauntlet II winners announced last month, it was only a matter of time before the big ...

You know how we keep saying that Valinor has made solving the US military’s least sexy, most overlooked problems their whole ...

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 ...

Forget about Taco Tuesday. It’s fiber-reinforced composite structures Tuesday. (Is that a thing? We’re making it a thing.) ...

You know the interceptor game is heating up when everyone’s favorite defense tech giant enters the ring. Yesterday—to kick ...

Ukrainian defense tech companies really are making some money moves, y’all. Yesterday, Canadian defense hotshot Dominion ...

For a company named after a tree-dwelling animal, Gecko Robotics is spending a whole lot of time out on the water. This morning, the Pittsburgh-based infrastructure inspection AI and robotics startup ...

Remember the olden days when companies emerged from stealth with, like, $5M in funding and a dream? Yeah. It would appear those days are long gone. Earlier this week, manufacturing software startup ...