mPower Technology just secured a big boost from Lockheed Martin Ventures, adding to its Series B round and bringing total funding to more than $24 million. The Albuquerque-based company is known for its DragonSCALES™ solar modules—lightweight, flexible, and cost-effective solar arrays designed to power the next generation of space missions. The fresh capital will help scale production at its high-volume facility in New York, which already leads the market in output compared to traditional space solar providers.
For Lockheed Martin, the investment is a strategic bet on reliable, affordable power as a backbone for future space operations. DragonSCALES technology is already being integrated into major projects, from Airbus’s Sparkwing arrays to satellite constellations like Telesat Lightspeed and Globalstar. With more than a decade of on-orbit heritage and a growing list of space industry partners, mPower’s flexible solar tech is poised to play a key role in both commercial and defense space infrastructure.
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BryceTech has landed a major win with three new Department of Defense prime contracts worth $70 million over five years, bolstering U.S. capabilities against chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) threats. The work will support the Joint Program Executive Office for CBRN Defense (JPEO-CBRND), which is responsible for delivering integrated defense tools to ensure the Joint Force can operate and fight in contested environments.
The contracts bring about 50 full-time BryceTech professionals into key roles spanning acquisition, science, technology, and program management. Their mission: accelerate medical countermeasure development, strengthen decision-support systems, and streamline coordination across logistics, research, and quality assurance. The awards will specifically support three JPEO offices—Enabling Biotechnologies, CBRN Integration, and CBRN Medical—covering everything from lifesaving diagnostics and therapeutics to enterprise-level threat prediction systems. For the Pentagon, the deal ensures continuity on programs that directly protect U.S. forces, while for BryceTech, it underscores the company’s growing role in one of the most complex and high-stakes corners of national defense.
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The U.S. Air Force steps toward autonomous aviation with a new $17.4 million contract awarded to Reliable Robotics. The deal will fund the purchase, integration, and testing of Reliable’s Autonomy System (RAS) on a Cessna 208B aircraft, marking the beginning of a program aimed at transforming military cargo logistics. Unlike experimental prototypes, this technology is FAA-certifiable and designed to operate proven, type-certified aircraft autonomously through every phase of flight—taxi, takeoff, en route, and landing.
For the Air Force, this capability ties directly into Agile Combat Employment (ACE), which requires rapid and flexible logistics across widely dispersed and often unpredictable hubs. By removing the limits of pilot availability and adding multiple layers of redundancy for safety, autonomous aircraft promise to move supplies more securely, quickly, and efficiently. Reliable Robotics has been steadily collaborating with the Air Force on autonomy research and system integration for years, and this contract represents a shift from experimentation to real-world deployment. If successful, the program could lay the groundwork for scaling uncrewed logistics across both military and civilian aviation.
