M&A
M&A
Mergers, acquisitions, and strategic partnerships.
Coverage
Exail Books €87m Loss After Thales Deal Prompts Restatement
Sales and EBITDA grew. The loss comes from obligations to investor ICG and to staff, signed in 2022, that the old accounts left out or understated.
Procore Completes $845 Million Purchase of DroneDeploy
DroneDeploy now answers to a construction software firm that plans to sell it to its own customers and feed its site imagery to AI.
Motorola buys D-Fend weeks after DHS opens $1.5B contract
Motorola closed a $1.5B counter-drone acquisition on August 20, three weeks after DHS opened a contract worth the same amount to twelve companies.
XTI Aerospace Warns of Going-Concern Doubt After CEO Resigns
XTI Aerospace told the SEC its late second-quarter 10-Q is expected to disclose going-concern doubt, days after chairman and CEO Scott Pomeroy resigned.
Ondas Books $83.8M Quarter, Raises Guidance to $550M
Ondas grew Q2 2026 revenue more than 13-fold to $83.8 million and lifted full-year guidance, while adjusted EBITDA losses widened to $50.6 million.
Archer Buys Boeing's Wisk, Insitu and SkyGrid in eVTOL Deal
Archer is acquiring Boeing's Wisk Aero, Insitu and SkyGrid, absorbing a rival air taxi programme and a profitable military drone unit in one deal.
Companies
Anduril Industries
US defense technology company building autonomous weapons, counter-UAS, and AI command software, and manufacturing them at its own Arsenal-1 plant in Ohio.
United States
Anzu Robotics
US drone company that built the Raptor series under licence from DJI, now owned by XTI Aerospace and developing a replacement after ending production.
United States
Archer Aviation
US eVTOL company developing the Midnight air taxi, now acquiring Boeing's Wisk Aero, Insitu and SkyGrid to add autonomy and defense manufacturing.
United States
Axon Enterprise
US public-safety technology company selling TASER devices, body cameras and evidence software, now a big counter-drone and DFR vendor via Dedrone.
United States
Boeing
Boeing is a US aerospace manufacturer with commercial-airplane, defense and space, and fleet-services businesses.
United States
CACI International
US defense IT and technology company providing counter-drone systems, electronic warfare and intelligence solutions to the US military and agencies.
United States
D-Fend Solutions
Israeli counter-drone company, bought by Motorola Solutions in August 2026, whose RF cyber systems take control of rogue drones and land them.
Israel
Dedrone
US counter-drone company, now part of Axon, providing airspace security platforms for military bases, prisons, airports and critical infrastructure.
United States
Funding
Contracts
Transportation Security Administration
Dedrone Defense
Split award for fixed and portable counter-drone capability built on a D-Fend EnforceAir2 system…
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Dedrone Defense
Survey, installation, integration, testing and support of a counter-drone sensor suite, task order…
Transportation Security Administration
Dedrone Defense
Fixed and mobile radio-frequency counter-drone sensors and software, task order 70T05026F6116N004…
U.S. Air Force
DZYNE Technologies
Modification P00005 to the same Long-Endurance Tactical Reconnaissance Aircraft assessment contract…
U.S. Air Force
Leidos
Engineering and integration support for the Medusa counter-small-drone system of systems.
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