The Drone Manufacturing Network.
Built for America.
Built for Uncle Sam. Ready when called.
The Aedes Network organizes America's independent drone builders into one certified, distributed, impossible-to-target manufacturing network — affordable, resilient, and 100% American-made.
Why Distributed Manufacturing Matters
A single factory is a single target.
A single supplier is a single point of failure.
A single contractor is a single point of leverage.
The Aedes Network solves this by distributing drone manufacturing across America. You cannot bomb a thousand garages.
The Problem We Solve
Drone manufacturing capacity already exists across the United States - in thousands of shops, garages, and labs. It just isn't organized.
Slow Industrial Base
Traditional drone manufacturing scales linearly - new orders require physical expansion, long lead times, and capital expenditure. The U.S. cannot produce UAVs at the speed or volume the market demands.
Supply Chain Fragility
Critical UAV components - flight controllers, ESCs, batteries, sensors - are sourced from globally concentrated suppliers. A single geopolitical disruption halts domestic drone production entirely.
Invisible Domestic Capacity
Thousands of U.S. drone builders, FPV fabricators, and electronics assemblers exist with no organized pathway to production contracts. Their capacity is economically invisible.
How Drone Production Works
Four stages. One coordinated UAV manufacturing network.
Builders Register
Drone builders, FPV fabricators, electronics assemblers, and composite shops join the network. UAV production skills, tools, and capacity are assessed and certified.
Designs Distributed
Secure, version-controlled UAV design packages are delivered to qualified builders. Full BOM, assembly instructions, and flight testing protocols. Encrypted delivery.
Drones Get Built
Builders produce UAV airframes, subassemblies, and complete drone systems. The Capacity Mapping Engine allocates work based on skill, location, and performance history.
QA Validates
All completed drones and components route through centralized QA hubs. Flight testing, inspection, certification. Payment tied to verified output only.
Affordable. Resilient. American.
Everything the current defense supply chain is not.
Affordable
Distributed competition drives unit costs down. Builders work from their own shops, on their own equipment. No corporate overhead. No idle factory. You pay for drones produced - nothing else.
Resilient
There is no central facility to strike. No critical supplier to cut off. No single contract to cancel. The network spans hundreds of independent nodes across America. It has no exploitable center.
American
Every builder is American. Every drone is built in America. This is not outsourcing. This is the Arsenal of Democracy, rebuilt for the 21st century.
Built on Merit. Paid on Output.
Aedes pays builders per QA-accepted drone — not by the hour, not on spec. High performers earn more work, higher rates, and access to more complex builds. Your reputation in the network is built the same way the drones are: one verified unit at a time.
Pay Per Verified Drone
Compensation tied to QA-passed output at a floor of $126.44/hr equivalent. Build more, earn more.
Merit-Based Advancement
High performers get more work, more complex builds, and higher earning rates.
Your Shop, Your Schedule
Build from your own workspace. Design packages delivered securely. QA is centralized — production is yours.
Kitchen Warfare
“They have 3-D printers in the kitchen, and they produce parts for drones. This is not innovation.”
- CEO, Rheinmetall (Germany's largest defense contractor)
When Germany's largest defense contractor dismissed Ukrainian housewives building drones in their kitchens, those same drones went on to sink Russia's naval fleet. Not by being centralized. By being everywhere.
Traditional defense procurement creates exactly the vulnerabilities that modern adversaries exploit - concentrated factories, single-source suppliers, rigid pipelines. Aedes is the structural alternative.
Distribute the production. Remove the target. Own the output.
Two Ways to Participate
🔧 Builders
Join the network. Get certified. Receive drone design packages. Build UAVs and subassemblies. Get paid per verified drone. High performers earn advancement and ownership stake.
- Pay-per-drone compensation
- Build airframes, subassemblies, or complete UAVs
- Merit-based advancement
- Earn ownership stake over time
- Applications open now
🇺🇸 Federal Gov't & Enterprise
We built this for Uncle Sam. The DoD is asking GM and Ford to pivot into defense production. Nobody has asked the builders. We did. Three federal funding proposals ready for review.
- No central point of failure — you can’t bomb a thousand garages
- Surge capacity activatable in 72 hours
- Expandable beyond drones to any distributed manufacturing
- Proposal A: $10M · Proposal B: $500M · Proposal C: $20B