Defense

Sep 9, 2026

SandboxAQ Tests Magnetic Navigation on Northrop Grumman Lumberjack Drone

SandboxAQ completed a flight test of its AQNav magnetic navigation system on Northrop Grumman's Lumberjack unmanned aircraft.

Sep 9, 2026

Knox Systems Launches IL5 Environment for Defense AI and Software

Knox Systems launched a Space Force sponsored Impact Level 5 environment for commercial software and AI applications handling sensitive defense workloads.

Sep 9, 2026

Aitech Introduces Rugged AI Boards for Defense Systems

Aitech introduced the C530 and U-C5300 rugged AI GPGPU boards for defense and aerospace systems, offering up to 35.8 TFLOPS of FP32 performance.

Sep 8, 2026

CAE and WB Electronics Plan Unmanned Systems Training

CAE and WB Electronics signed an agreement to explore training and simulation systems for unmanned and autonomous platforms.

Sep 4, 2026

Seasats Books $24 Million in USV Orders in One Month

Seasats booked more than $24 million in orders for unmanned surface vessels and vessel services from United States national security customers.

Sep 3, 2026

Havoc and Rune Integrate Autonomous Aircraft With TyrOS

Havoc and Rune Technologies have connected autonomous aircraft with the TyrOS logistics platform for military resupply operations in contested environments.

Sep 3, 2026

Defense Unicorns Names Lauren Knausenberger Chief Business Officer

Former Department of the Air Force CIO Lauren Knausenberger has joined Defense Unicorns as chief business officer.

Sep 3, 2026

Lutnick Says Anthropic Has Repaired White House Ties

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Anthropic has met the administration's requests and regained its trust after a dispute over military uses of Claude.

Sep 2, 2026

Airbility Raises $4.7 Million for AI Counter Drone Aircraft

Airbility raised $4.7 million in Series A funding led by Sazze Partners, bringing its total funding to $7.6 million. The company plans to use the funding for counter drone eVTOL aircraft and production capacity.

Sep 2, 2026

Aitan Raises $41 Million for Robotic Defense Systems

Aitan has emerged from stealth with $41 million in new funding for robotic defense systems. The round was co led by Deep33 and Dell Technologies Capital, bringing total funding to $54 million.

Sep 2, 2026

Dirac Brings BuildOS Manufacturing Platform to AWS

Dirac and Amazon Web Services have partnered to host BuildOS on AWS infrastructure, including AWS GovCloud (US), for manufacturers handling regulated production data.

Sep 1, 2026

Innoflight to Supply Avionics for SDA Tracking Layer Tranche 3

Innoflight has been selected as a supplier for the Space Development Agency's PWSA Tracking Layer Tranche 3 program, providing avionics for a planned 72 satellite missile tracking constellation.

Sep 1, 2026

VALOR Network Selects RADIN Health for Federal Teleradiology Services

VALOR Network selected RADIN Health to support federal teleradiology services for the Department of Veterans Affairs and U.S. Department of War, with Total Medical Imaging providing nationwide radiologist coverage.

Aug 27, 2026

ConductorAI Wins U.S. Army Cyber Command Contract for Information Sharing

ConductorAI has been selected to support U.S. Army Cyber Command through ArCTIC, using its Conduit platform to speed information sharing and approval workflows.

Aug 27, 2026

VANEA Defence Unveils ATOMZA Drone Defence System for Civilian Operators

VANEA Defence has unveiled ATOMZA, a drone defence system for civilian operators that uses directed photonic radiation to disable drone optical sensors without destroying the aircraft.

Aug 26, 2026

Cellebrite Launches Tactical Extraction Kit for Military Field Forensics

Cellebrite introduced C-TEK, a backpack sized digital forensics kit for military teams to extract and review data from phones, SIM cards, drones, and storage devices in the field.

Aug 26, 2026

NAVER D2SF Invests in F4GE for Defense Manufacturing Network

NAVER D2SF has invested in F4GE, a South Korean startup building a manufacturing network for defense and advanced hardware buyers.

Aug 25, 2026

Riverside Research and Tera AI Partner on GPS Denied Mapping

Riverside Research and Tera AI have partnered to bring Tera AI's DeepSLAM mapping technology into Riverside Research offerings for national security customers.

Aug 25, 2026

Ibeos Genie Processor Completes U.S. Space Force Mission

Ibeos says its Genie Space Edge Processor operated during the U.S. Space Force Victus Haze mission and has achieved space heritage.

Aug 24, 2026

LGNDX Gets U.S. Air Force Contract for Defense Acquisition Platform

LGNDX received a U.S. Air Force SBIR Phase III contract to deploy IX.MIL, a platform for defense acquisition workflows.