@MPMaterials launches America’s most ambitious rare-earth magnet build out. Hard Tech Headlines: - @DARPA has selected @IonQ_Inc to produce 125 atomic clocks, critical for radar, secure communications, and precision geolocation. - @oklo, the American nuclear company, has achieved criticality at its test reactor in Lockhart, Texas. - @TryOpenX has announced that its COLABs, forward-deployable manufacturing and upskilling facilities, are operating across the United States, Guam, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Middle East. The facilities have also been tested in operational environments with U.S. Central Command. - @HadrianInc has secured a $1.37 billion Series D to scale its Factory-as-a-Service model. - 1872 has secured a $15M seed round. The Cincinnati, Ohio-based startup is building an automated steel fabrication factory. - @atlasmotion has launched out of stealth. The Los Angeles startup develops motion systems for drones, robots, and broader autonomous systems, which are critical to the physical movement of robotic platforms. The startup already has a factory online and has secured $11.5 million in funding led by Greycroft. - @PathRobotics and @GrayMatterRobot have secured agreements covering up to $900 million in work from HII (subject to performance milestones) to deploy robotic production across U.S. Navy shipbuilding programs, including submarines, amphibious ships and unmanned surface vessels. - Tactical Composites, the Rhode Island-based company, has delivered its first autonomous amphibious landing craft to the U.S. Marine Corps, built to move cargo and equipment at high speed in contested environments. - @MPMaterials has launched Project Swarm to strengthen America’s rare-earth magnet supply chain, allowing customers to reserve future production capacity at its planned 10X facility in Northlake, Texas. - The U.S. Marine Corps has established a robotics integration group at Twentynine Palms focused on standardizing FPV drone and C-UAS training across the force. - Jacob Glassman has been named Deputy Assistant Secretary of War for Critical Technologies, overseeing portfolios spanning space, trusted microelectronics, and technologies supporting nuclear command, control, and communications. - @ShotwellSt has launched. The startup is developing automated data-labeling and failure-detection tools for robotics. - Mitti Labs, the Indian startup, has secured a $9.5 million Series A led by Aramco Ventures. The startup uses satellite imagery, radar data, AI and physical models to track rice-field health and optimize irrigation in India, with plans to expand into the Philippines and Indonesia. - Aktoria Robotics has launched out of YC. The startup provides 24/7 remote operators for robotics companies. - @Overland_AI_X, the Seattle-based ground autonomy startup, has deployed its autonomous ground vehicle in the woods alongside drones from @ag3labs for mobile launches.

BREAKING: America is getting a new trade school built for the reindustrialization boom. @TryOpenX begins trials at Skill Factory #000 in Texas in early July, with plans to train 10,000+ skilled workers annually and build employer-backed production lines around real industrial demand.

Breaking: Open X (@TryOpenX) says its COLAB forward-deployable manufacturing lab is now supporting live combat deployments, with dozens of units fielded across six countries. COLAB is a containerized lab built to bring upskilling, repair, and fabrication closer to the edge. The system has also been fielded with Special Operations Forces and Marine Forces Special Operations Command. Separately, two research and development COLAB units deployed to Operation Epic Fury.