{"id":38114,"date":"2025-07-03T13:32:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T13:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2025\/07\/03\/made-in-america-drone-maker-neros-awaits-its-big-pentagon-break\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:13:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:13:27","slug":"made-in-america-drone-maker-neros-awaits-its-big-pentagon-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/unmanned\/2025\/07\/03\/made-in-america-drone-maker-neros-awaits-its-big-pentagon-break\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Made-in-America\u2019 drone maker Neros awaits its big Pentagon break"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FAIRBANKS, Alaska \u2014 When Neros Technologies was founded in 2023, there wasn\u2019t much demand in the U.S. military for small, first-person-view drones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt took us a while to find the right customers and end users who were excited about the technology and wanted to move very quickly,\u201d Soren Monroe-Anderson, Neros CEO and co-founder, told Defense News during a recent Defense Innovation Unit test event here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the company believed strongly there was military utility for small, cheap, attack drones \u2014 a reality playing out daily <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/industry\/2025\/02\/18\/ukrainian-defense-planners-envision-a-drones-only-front-line\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/industry\/2025\/02\/18\/ukrainian-defense-planners-envision-a-drones-only-front-line\/\">on the battlefield in Ukraine<\/a>. So, in the firm\u2019s early days, Monroe-Anderson and others traveled to the war-torn country to better understand how the systems were being used and what capabilities were needed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those visits helped sharpen the company\u2019s focus in three areas: production, supply chain and rapid iteration, said Monroe-Anderson, a 22-year-old professional drone racer and hobbyist turned weapons-maker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neros worked quickly to raise the private capital it needed to build a 15,000 square foot facility in Los Angeles from funders like Peter Thiel and Sequoia Capital. It scoured its supply chain for alternatives to Chinese components. And it continuously upgraded its systems based on lessons it was seeing in Ukraine, where it has since established an office. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That early work is starting to yield results for the firm. In February, Neros won a contract from the International Drone Coalition to provide 6,000 drones to Ukraine over six months. The IDC was formed to help fuel the country\u2019s drone supply \u2014 factories in Ukraine produced more than 2.2 million drones in 2024 \u2014 and the contract is among the largest known awards to a U.S. supplier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neros is now building about 1,500 of its Archer drones per month, an 8-inch quadcopter that has a range of over 12 miles and can carry a 4.5 lb. payload. Two-thirds of those systems go to Ukraine and the remaining 500 to the U.S. military, including the Marine Corps, Army and U.S. Special Operations Command, Monroe-Anderson said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company is currently one of two FPV companies on DIU\u2019s list of firms <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/unmanned\/2025\/02\/14\/pentagon-expands-list-of-commercial-drones-certified-for-military-use\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/unmanned\/2025\/02\/14\/pentagon-expands-list-of-commercial-drones-certified-for-military-use\/\">whose drones meet DOD\u2019s supply chain requirements<\/a>, which prohibit the use of Chinese suppliers for key components. Last December, Neros was placed on a list of 13 U.S. defense companies sanctioned by China. The firm called the move \u201ca badge of honor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"636\" height=\"640\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_2312.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-120193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_2312.jpg.jpg 636w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_2312.jpg.jpg?resize=150,150 150w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_2312.jpg.jpg?resize=298,300 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Neros Technologies CEO Soren Monroe-Anderson, center, flies one of the company&#8217;s Archer drones on June 26 during a Defense Innovation Unit test event in Fairbanks, Alaska. (Courtney Albon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monroe-Anderson said Neros wants to increase its production capacity to 10,000 drones monthly by the end of this year. Its longer-term vision is to build a factory that can produce one million drones per year with the U.S. Defense Department as its primary customer. It\u2019s a target that Monroe-Anderson says is \u201cabsolutely required\u201d for the U.S. to defend itself in future wars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEven if the government right now isn\u2019t handing out a contract for a million drones a year, we know that\u2019s what the country needs,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s what we believe as a company, that\u2019s what our investors believe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pentagon in recent years has made a rhetorical push to increase its inventory of low-cost, throwaway drones, but has struggled to restructure its acquisition and funding processes and realign priorities within the military services to follow through on its claims. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2025\/01\/14\/the-pentagons-replicator-drone-bonanza-faces-an-uncertain-future\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2025\/01\/14\/the-pentagons-replicator-drone-bonanza-faces-an-uncertain-future\/\">the department launched a program called Replicator<\/a> to address the challenge, pledging to field thousands of drones by August of this year and create a repeatable process for scaling innovation in the department. The results of that effort are due next month, and while DOD leaders say it is meeting its target, experts say the numbers it\u2019s aiming for are much lower than what the department actually needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trent Emeneker, who oversees several DIU autonomy efforts, said demand in DOD is growing for FPV drones similar to what Neros is building. The challenge is matching that demand, which is largely flowing from troops on the ground, with resources and programmatic support. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere is enormous demand, but that demand is not backed up by funding and it\u2019s not backed up by the program offices,\u201d he told Defense News. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monroe-Anderson said that as a company trying to sell to the department, he\u2019s seen a significant posture shift in the last year. In fact, he called today\u2019s demand \u201cpretty aggressive\u201d compared to Neros\u2019 early days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve gone from having conversations where we\u2019re sort of trying to do the convincing to now we\u2019re just constantly getting cold outreach asking us about our systems, asking if we can train soldiers on FPV drones,\u201d Monroe-Anderson said. \u201cIt\u2019s basically gone from nothing to some of our customers doing live-fire demonstrations to senior leaders in 12 months, which is a really, really fast timeline.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the company may not have a contract in hand that requires a major production ramp up, Monroe-Anderson said its strategy is to be ready to fulfill higher orders when that time comes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That applies to the near-term expansion to 10,000 systems per month and the longer-term push for one million annually, which he noted will require a revamp of the company\u2019s entire manufacturing approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAvailability is one of the most critical things here,\u201d he said. \u201cI think the companies who are going to win in this space are the ones who are able to ramp production capacity very quickly. 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