A Letter from our CEO: Proud to Protect​

Today’s announcement of the Department of War’s Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) $820 million financial commitment to PDW is an important milestone, but more importantly, it reflects a growing national recognition that manufacturing capability, critical technologies, and resilient supply chains have become strategic assets.

We are proud to be trusted to help strengthen the nation's drone industrial base by expanding domestic manufacturing capability and bolstering production of the critical components modern defense depends on.

At PDW, our mission is straightforward:​ Put decisive airpower in the hands of every operator.​

That mission has never been solely about designing aircraft. It has always been about delivering capability. And capability only matters if it can be built, fielded, sustained, and scaled when and where it’s needed most.​

Over the last several years, we have focused on building a company around that belief.​

We established our headquarters in Huntsville, Alabama, one of the great centers of American engineering and manufacturing. We invested in Drone Factory 01, a 90,000 square-foot-facility, with engineering, flight test, systems integration, production, and fulfillment together under one roof. And we did so with the belief that the future of American defense technology would require not only innovation, but the ability to manufacture mission-ready systems and critical components required to build them here at home.

Because modern conflict is changing.​

Across the world, operators are increasingly being asked to do more with fewer resources, in more contested environments, and at a faster pace than ever before. The systems that support them must evolve accordingly.​

The challenge is no longer simply innovation.​ It is execution.​

The strategic financial commitment from OSC does not change our mission; we believe it accelerates our ability to execute it. The OSC program intends to expands domestic manufacturing capability, strengthens production of critical technologies and components, and helps ensure more of what our military depends on can be designed, built, and sustained here in the United States.

For too long, discussions about defense technology have focused primarily on innovation. Innovation matters, but innovation without production is potential, not capability.​

Capability is what reaches the operator, creates readiness, and sustains credible deterrence.

And capability begins long before a system reaches the field. It begins in engineering labs, production lines, factories, supply chains, and the people who show up every day to build.​

That is why this moment matters.​

Not because of what it says about PDW, but because it reflects a growing recognition that industrial capability and operational readiness are inseparable.

America has always been at its strongest when it combined innovation with the ability to build. Restoring that ability is one of the defining challenges of our time.

We are proud to help deliver that mission.