Defense manufacturing startup Firestorm Labs has closed an $82 million Series B round, bringing its total capital raised to $153 million. Washington Harbour Partners led the investment, joined by several backers spanning defense, intelligence, and venture, including NEA , In-Q-Tel , Lockheed Martin Ventures , Booz Allen Ventures , Ondas , Geodesic , Motley Fool Ventures , and Litquidity Ventures . The funding arrives as the company shifts from demonstration mode into scaled deployment across active military theaters.

Firestorm’s argument is simple: centralized manufacturing and extended logistics pipelines are liabilities in high-intensity conflict, particularly in theaters like the Indo-Pacific where access and resupply can be severed.…