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Fortem Technologies started in a Utah facility building a net that catches drones midair. It is a capture system, not a kill system. Autonomous, AI-guided, and designed to lower a threat to the ground intact rather than scatter debris over a stadium or a power plant. 🎯 Lockheed Martin selected
R2 Wireless raises $5.3M to expand its Odin passive RF spectrum platform as the counter-UAS market enters a structural growth phase. AI-powered passive detection is becoming the stealth layer that active radars cannot provide.
Palladyne AI executed a $4.2M AFRL contract to make satellites, drones and ground vehicles coordinate as one AI-driven mesh under the HANGTIME program.
The DoD DAWG $54.6B budget signals a procurement model shift from 10-year cycles to attritable mass. Defense contracts are de-risking commercial robotics investment — $33B+ in VC, 200K drone target by 2027.
Generative AI has discovered nearly a million antimicrobial peptide candidates in two years. The bottleneck has shifted from discovery to delivery and MIT programmable antibacterials point to a path forward.
85% of all NATO defence-tech venture funding since 2019 went to the United States. European defence budgets are at their highest since the Cold War. France at €76 billion, Germany at €152 billion, the EU mobilising €800 billion through ReArm Europe. The gap between what governments spend and what
BrainChip's AKD1500 enters production shipments — the first neuromorphic processor built for industrial and military tiers. Raytheon and Lockheed Martin are already embedding it. The chip draws under 300 mW and learns without a cloud connection.
Defence tech raised $49B in VC/PE in 2025, sovereign wealth funds redirected $2.7T toward strategic tech, and the Pentagon became one of VC's biggest backers. Here is how defence procurement is becoming an institutional asset class.
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