Barratt Dewey
@barratt_dewey
Defense & Policy Reporter @TectonicDefense | @WarStudies @BatesCollege @LSEnews alum | Signal: bdewey.54 (Views Mine)
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In case you missed it, @anduriltech announced late Friday that they’d been awarded a $99.6M, 11-month OTA contract to spearhead a next-generation command and control (NGC2) prototype for the 4th Infantry Division of the Army. tectonicdefense.com/icymi-anduril-…
I invite you to “2000 Meters to Andriivka” premiere in theaters this Friday in New York. A personal and symbiotic story of Ukrainian platoon on a deadly mission to liberate a small strategic village occupied by Russian forces. 2000meterstoandriivka.com
🇺🇸 🇫🇷 In another US-EU defense tech partnership, autonomous systems integrator @Picogrid is teaming up with French UAS software startup Alta Ares on interceptor drones for low-cost autonomous air defense. I talked with their founders about the partnership in @tectonicdefense:…
.@BoozAllen, the century-old defense and intelligence consulting giant, announced a $200M boost to its venture arm, raising its total capital commitment to $300M. tectonicdefense.com/booz-allen-boo…
Military logistics startup Rune Technologies announced they’ve raised a $24M Series A led by Human Capital, with participation from Pax VC and Washington Harbour Partners. tectonicdefense.com/rune-raises-24…
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The Ukrainian leadership has no room for error when it comes to democracy and the country’s continued integration with the European Union.
"If warfighters needed 10,000 boats tomorrow, the DoD could go buy them. They don't have to wait for us to build them. Havoc would make them autonomous and Lockheed Martin would make them lethal."
This is the 100' mUSV at the heart of our recently-announced collaboration with @LockheedMartin Ventures. It is a real boat. It's not a drawing. And it lives in the Pacific. When we say it will be available this year, this is how you know. We're not asking to be paid for good…
Really great recap of the report:
Great talking with @masao_dahlgren about @Missile_Defense’s new report on the need for a ground-based, proliferated meshed AMD sensing network🚀 Read the article in @tectonicdefense defense here: tectonicdefense.com/csis-wants-air… And the full CSIS report here: csis.org/analysis/mesh-…
Great talking with @masao_dahlgren about @Missile_Defense’s new report on the need for a ground-based, proliferated meshed AMD sensing network🚀 Read the article in @tectonicdefense defense here: tectonicdefense.com/csis-wants-air… And the full CSIS report here: csis.org/analysis/mesh-…
Between Iron Dome and Golden Dome headlines, debates over the E-7 Wedgetail AEW&C and space-based ISR, and calls to send more Patriots to Ukraine, air and missile defense (AMD) is the talk of the town. tectonicdefense.com/csis-wants-air…
It’s been a big week for Stark. The German drone company announced that it’s opening a 40,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in the UK, the company’s first site outside of Germany and Ukraine. tectonicdefense.com/starks-big-wee…
Between Iron Dome and Golden Dome headlines, debates over the E-7 Wedgetail AEW&C and space-based ISR, and calls to send more Patriots to Ukraine, air and missile defense (AMD) is the talk of the town. tectonicdefense.com/csis-wants-air…
Well, turns out @Firestorm_Labs is printing a lot more than drones. The San Diego-based manufacturing and drone company announced it has raised a $47M Series A. tectonicdefense.com/firestorm-eyes…
Exclusive: Dual-use defense VC New North Ventures closed its Fund II with $45M in anchor funding (target of $80M and up to $100M) through the DoD & SBA’s SBICCT Initiative. That’s a big jump from New North’s $25M Fund I. Read about NNV’s plans for Fund II in @tectonicdefense👇
When defense tech is hot, it’s hot. Dual-use defense- and security-focused VC fund New North Ventures announced exclusively to Tectonic the first close of its second fund. tectonicdefense.com/exclusive-new-…
Thanks @tectonicdefense for covering our Washington D.C. office opening. tectonicdefense.com/exclusive-blue…
Forgive my ignorance, but what is a white nationalist militia from Washington State doing in Ukraine assassinating top 🇺🇦intel officials, more than likely at the behest of 🇷🇺FSB? Next obvious question: How deep does the relationship between American neo-nazi…
🇺🇦 #Ukraine: The Ukrainian wing of The Base, a far right extremist organisation originally founded in the U.S. and banned in multiple countries, has claimed responsibility for the killing of SBU Colonel Ivan Voronych in Kyiv. In a Telegram statement, the group praised those…
The Navy has struggled to construct ships. Now it may cut the admirals who help build them. ow.ly/hM4j106g0Zw