Bessemer Venture Partners leads NODA AI’s $25M Series A to transform how the Department of War develops and orchestrates unmanned and manned tactics in complex, mission-critical environments.
Read Full ArticleIf you’re a regular Tectonic reader, you’ll know there are a whole lot of drones, drone boats, drone submarines, and whatever other autonomous thingamajigs you can think of coming onto the market. What all these autonomous systems are missing is a playcaller that turns them into a cohesive multi-domain, multi-platform force. NODA AI is building that orchestrator, and in an exclusive release to Tectonic this morning, the Austin-based startup announced it raised a $25M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners at a $125M post-money valuation to scale it.
Accelint, in collaboration with NODA AI, Safran Federal Systems, and Striveworks, has launched its new MV-20 unmanned surface vessel on a 600+ mile mission in the Gulf of Mexico. The mission aims to prove endurance, navigation, and integrated payload performance under operationally realistic conditions for the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering (OUSW R&E). The MV-20, designed to be a multi-purpose platform, will operate off the coast of Florida for two weeks, collecting sensor data and demonstrating its ability to support a range of defense missions.
OpenAI has partnered with two defense technology companies that the Pentagon has selected to compete to develop voice-controlled, drone swarming software for the military, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.
The rapid pace of uncrewed surface vessel (USV) technology development has been on display this month, most recently with CSBC Corp’s military-grade USV Manta being demonstrated at the Taipei Aerospace and Defense Technology Exhibition.
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