Cal Biesecker is a Reporter at Defense Daily and Editor of Homeland Security Report. He covers a range of topics including aviation and aerospace, drone technology, and artificial intelligence, with a focus on security and public safety. Cal's work has been featured in The Business Herald and Defense Daily.
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By: Cal Biesecker
Defense Daily's Cal Biesecker was at Fort Bragg, N.C., on August 21 to observe the Army's ongoing development and experimentation of autonomous technologies for use in clearing minefields and obstacles, an effort called the Sandhills Project that was begun in late 2022.
By: Cal Biesecker
The Defense Department on Monday said it is investing $750 million with a new special purpose vehicle, US SIIE, LLC, that will purchase rare earth carbonates mined and processed in Brazil, helping to secure a supply chain for the materials outside of China. On top of DoD's investment, the arrangement also features a $300 million purchase agreement by the Defense Logistics Agency and a $500 million commitment from an unnamed money-center bank to help capitalize US SIIE, LLC, DoD said.…
By: Cal Biesecker
FORT BRAGG, N.C.—An ongoing experimentation effort by the Army examining new technologies to effectively and safely breach minefields and other obstacles has added a counter-drone system to the mix to protect the unmanned vehicles at the edge of the mine-clearing operations. A semi-autonomous, turreted 12-gauge shotgun system called Edda and supplied by 9 Mothers is mounted atop the cab of an unmanned Ford F-250 pickup truck, guarding the unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) as it approaches a minefield and autonomously maneuvers…
By: Cal Biesecker
Auriga Space recently completed more than a dozen test fires of its containerized electromagnetic launcher at a private range in the Mojave desert, shooting different unguided, unpowered projectiles at speeds above Mach 1 as the startup continues to develop the system to defeat swarms of Group 3 and larger drones. The test of Hermes in the Mojave desert followed firings of thousands of projectiles indoors into a catcher box (Defense Daily, July 15). The company is developing Hermes to help…
By: Cal Biesecker
Ursa Major on Tuesday said it will go public in early 2027 to raise funds that will enable it to transition its products from development and low-rate production to full-rate production to meet surging Defense Department demand for critical munitions and the sources that power them. Ursa Major has entered a business combination with Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. [BCCQU], a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) backed by Inflection Point Asset Management, and will be renamed Inflection Point Mach X. The company…
By: Cal Biesecker
Mara on Tuesday said it raised $7 million in a pre-seed round to build its Spike portable counter-drone platform, which includes targeting sensors and small interceptors for 360-degree coverage against swarms of cheap first person view drones. The investment was led by Khosla Ventures. The San Francisco-based startup plans to provide ground-mounted versions of Spike to potential customers later this year, and the vehicle-mounted and man-portable variants in 2027, the same year Mara hopes to being production. The company said…
LeoLabs on Wednesday said the Space Force has awarded the company a $20.7 million contract to deliver a modified version of its Scout containerized space surveillance radar for a “new defense mission set.” The expeditionary S-band direct radiating array radar system was introduced in April 2025 and the first operational deployment occurred earlier this year, LeoLabs said (Defense Daily, April 7, 2025). The new “award provides the opportunity to demonstrate a variant of this system in support of future defense…
Australia's Q-CTRL on Thursday said its gravity sensing technology was used to navigate a maritime vessel without GPS in the Coral Sea, marking a first for the quantum gravimeter. Q-CTRL said its Ironstone Opal quantum-assured systems can operate in air, land and sea domains and be a backup for when GPS is denied or degraded. The technology detects the “invisible hills and valleys in Earth's gravity, allowing the system to position against gravity maps,” the company said. In the sea…
By: Cal Biesecker
Shield AI is licensing an artificial intelligence and computer vision system for detecting and tracking small drones to L3Harris Technologies [LHX] for use on the company's VAMPIRE counter-drone platform, Shield AI said this week. The Tracker C-UAS (counter-unmanned aircraft system) capability relies on video from electro-optical and infrared (EO/IR) sensors to passively detect, discriminate and track “faraway” small drones targets, providing early warning for the VAMPIRE system to respond, Shield AI said. The companies last summer at the Defense Department's…
By: Cal Biesecker
The Border Patrol's use of small drones over the past few years have demonstrated key benefits such as the ability to gain rapid situational awareness and lower costs versus other platforms but challenges with the number of suppliers, technical failures, maintenance issues and an aging fleet have limited the agency's ability to fully leverage the technology to meet operational requirements, the Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General (IG) says in a new report. As for the advantages of the small…
