The Network is Being Built.
So It's Ready When Called.
Aedes does not have a federal contract to provide the Department of War with drones...yet. We're building the Aedes Manufacturing Network now — so that when America's critical infrastructure comes under attack, the surge capacity already exists, is already certified, and can be activated in days, not years.
The Department of Defense Has a Problem
They're calling GM and Ford. But they haven't called the people who actually know how to build drones.
The DoD's Approach
Centralized factories. Long procurement cycles. Billion-dollar primes. Production timelines measured in years. Vulnerable to supply chain disruption, geopolitical shock, and — in conflict — direct targeting.
What Nobody Has Done
Nobody has asked the FPV builders, the garage fabricators, the drone hobbyists, the composite shops, the electronics assemblers — the literal mom-and-pop builders that make America great — to participate. Their capacity is invisible.
The Aedes Answer
Organize that invisible capacity into a certified, measurable, activatable production network. One point of contact. Distributed across every state. Impossible to disrupt. Ready to surge on demand.
We Start With Drones.
We Were Designed for More.
The Aedes Network is focused on UAV production — but it was architected to be fundamentally flexible. The same infrastructure that certifies drone builders, distributes design packages, maps production capacity, and validates quality output can coordinate the distributed manufacturing of virtually any system that can be 3D printed, assembled, or fabricated by independent American builders.
What we are building — at its core — is a single point of contact through which the Department of Defense can activate distributed American manufacturing capacity at scale, on demand, without a factory, without a years-long procurement cycle, and without a single point of failure.
Three Proposals for the Federal Government
A phased investment path from network proof-of-concept to permanent, national-scale distributed manufacturing infrastructure.
$10 Million
Phase 1 — Proof of Network
Fund the buildout and operational testing of the Aedes Manufacturing Network — validating that distributed domestic drone production is viable, measurable, and activatable at scale.
Deliverable: A live, certified, tested distributed drone manufacturing network — proven capable of activating surge production capacity within 72 hours of tasking.
$500 Million
Phase 2 — National Infrastructure + 200,000 Drones
Establish permanent Quality Assurance and Validation Centers in all 50 states, and execute the first large-scale production run of 200,000 multi-purpose mini UAV systems — 100% American-made, distributed across the Aedes builder network.
Deliverable: 200,000 certified, tested, field-ready mini UAV systems. QA infrastructure in all 50 states. A national distributed production network that can produce at volume with no central point of failure.
$20 Billion
Phase 3 — American Dominance in Domestic Drone Manufacturing
A 20-year sustained program investment to grow, maintain, and continuously improve the Aedes Network — ensuring that the United States permanently leads the world in domestic, distributed, resilient drone and uncrewed systems manufacturing. This is not a procurement program. It is national manufacturing infrastructure.
Deliverable: Permanent American dominance in domestic drone manufacturing. A self-sustaining, self-improving national production network that cannot be disrupted, disabled, or destroyed by any adversary. The Arsenal of Democracy — rebuilt for the 21st century.
Cost + 5% — Transparent, Auditable, Capped
Aedes MD at ~$1,456/unit vs. $5,000–$25,000+ from a DoD prime. HX-1 at ~$4,293/unit vs. $25,000–$150,000+. Every formula is public. See full pricing model →
Program Summary
Why Build This Now?
When critical infrastructure comes under attack — and it will — the procurement cycle is already too late. The network must exist before the crisis.
American drone builders already exist. They're in every state. They have the tools, the skills, and the patriotism. They just haven't been asked.
Ukraine proved that distributed production wins. A thousand garages cannot be bombed. A centralized factory can.
The DoD is already looking for manufacturing partners. Aedes is building the answer they haven't thought to look for yet.
Get in Touch
Federal agencies, defense contractors, commercial customers, and investors — we want to hear from you.