SEGMENT 01, HARDWARE PLATFORMS
Western & NDAA-compliant manufacturers.
Mach Industries
Huntington Beach, California, USA · Private
Venture-funded US defence manufacturer building a portfolio of low-cost autonomous strike and counter-drone systems around a vertically integrated, distributed manufacturing model.
View profile →Neros
El Segundo, California, USA · Private
US manufacturer of attritable first-person-view (FPV) strike drones, built on a China-free supply chain and selected as a primary FPV supplier to the US Army under the Purpose-Built Attritable Systems programme.
View profile →Skydio
Hayward, California, USA · Private
Largest US-origin autonomous drone manufacturer; dual-use enterprise, public safety, and defence platforms.
View profile →AeroVironment
Arlington, Virginia, USA · NASDAQ: AVAV
Publicly listed defence and commercial UAS prime. Loitering munitions, ISR, and counter-UAS, expanded into space and directed energy through the BlueHalo acquisition.
View profile →DJI
Shenzhen, China · Private
The dominant drone manufacturer in the world by units, holding roughly 70% of the global market, now cut off from new US equipment authorisations by the FCC Covered List while its installed base still accounts for ~96% of detected US drone activity.
View profile →Parrot
Paris, France · EPA: PARRO
Listed European microdrone manufacturer. ANAFI USA is one of the few non-US-origin platforms cleared for US federal procurement and deployed across NATO security and defence customers.
View profile →Wingtra
Zurich, Switzerland · Private
World's leading commercial VTOL surveying drone manufacturer. WingtraOne is the platform of choice for construction, infrastructure, mining, and land management surveying at sub-centimetre accuracy.
View profile →ModalAI
San Diego, California, USA · Private
US maker of NDAA-compliant drone autopilots and components, formed by former Qualcomm R&D leaders, and a placed vendor in both Drone Dominance Gauntlets.
View profile →Skycutter
London, United Kingdom · Private
British drone company that won Gauntlet I of the Pentagon's Drone Dominance Program with a strike drone built with Ukraine's Skyfall.
View profile →SEGMENT 02, AUTONOMY SOFTWARE & AI FLIGHT
The operating layer above the hardware.
Palantir Technologies
Aventura, Florida, USA · NASDAQ: PLTR
Software company whose platforms, Gotham, Foundry, Apollo and its Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP), integrate data for government and commercial customers. Builds no aircraft.
View profile →Anduril Industries
Costa Mesa, California, USA · Private
Defence technology company building autonomous platforms and the Lattice AI command-and-control platform. The most heavily capitalised non-traditional defence firm in the US.
View profile →Shield AI
San Diego, California, USA · Private
Defence autonomy software company. Hivemind enables GPS-denied autonomous flight using on-board AI rather than external positioning signals.
View profile →Auterion
Arlington, Virginia, USA / Zurich, Switzerland · Private
Open-source autonomy software. Builds the PX4-based flight stack that powers low-cost commercial drone hardware at defence scale, including AI-enabled drone swarms.
View profile →DroneDeploy
San Francisco, California, USA · Private
Cloud software platform for commercial drones. The category-leading enterprise SaaS for processing drone-captured data across construction, mining, agriculture, energy, and inspection.
View profile →XTEND
Tel Aviv, Israel · NYSE: XTND
Israeli autonomy and human-machine teaming specialist, listed on the NYSE since 4 September 2026 as XTEND AI Robotics. XOS operating system fuses operator intelligence with machine autonomy. Combat-proven via Israeli forces; multiple Pentagon attack-drone contracts, including a $40.5 million STRIKER order in October 2026.
View profile →Swarmer
Austin, Texas, USA · NASDAQ: SWMR
Drone-swarm autonomy software company, first used in combat in Ukraine in April 2024, listed on Nasdaq in March 2026. It licenses software to drone makers rather than building airframes.
View profile →SEGMENT 03, AIRSPACE & UTM
Traffic management, U-space, and BVLOS infrastructure.
ANRA Technologies
Reston, Virginia, USA · Private
Unmanned aircraft system traffic management (UTM) and U-space platform. Long-running NASA and FAA UTM partner; selected for European U-space and UK BVLOS programmes.
View profile →Frequentis
Vienna, Austria · VIE: FQT
Listed Austrian air-traffic-management and public-safety control-room specialist. Integrating unmanned traffic management (UTM) with civilian and military ATM at programme-of-record scale.
View profile →Unifly
Antwerp, Belgium · Parent: Terra Drone Corporation
European UTM platform. Operates in 8+ countries; powers Port of Antwerp drone airspace (first seaport-managed geozone). Acquired by Japanese drone group Terra Drone in August 2023.
View profile →SEGMENT 04, LOGISTICS OPERATORS
Companies running the networks, not just selling the aircraft.
Joby Aviation
Santa Cruz, California, USA · NYSE: JOBY
Publicly traded electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) air taxi developer. First-of-its-kind FAA Type Inspection Authorisation, with Dubai launch targeted for 2026.
View profile →BETA Technologies
South Burlington, Vermont, USA · NYSE: BETA
NYSE-listed electric aircraft manufacturer running a cargo-first certification strategy: the fixed-wing ALIA CX300 leads, the ALIA A250 eVTOL follows, and a 138-site charging network underpins both.
View profile →Archer Aviation
Santa Clara, California, USA · NYSE: ACHR
Publicly traded eVTOL air taxi developer. First eVTOL manufacturer to receive 100% FAA acceptance of its Means of Compliance. Strategic backing from Stellantis and United Airlines.
View profile →Wing
Palo Alto, California, USA · Strategic
Alphabet-owned drone delivery operator. Holds a Part 135 air carrier certificate for drone operations, granted by the FAA in 2019. Runs drone delivery from Walmart stores in the US, which Wing describes as the nation’s largest residential drone delivery footprint, and has announced a partnership to enter Japan.
View profile →Zipline
South San Francisco, California, USA · Private
World's largest autonomous delivery operator by deliveries completed. 2 million-plus commercial deliveries across seven countries, with US retail and medical expansion compounding through 2026.
View profile →Flytrex
Tel Aviv, Israel (US operations: North Carolina and Texas) · Private
Suburban food and retail drone delivery operator built on tether-drop delivery to yards. One of five holders of standard FAA Part 135 permissions via operating partner Causey Aviation Unmanned, with August 2025 BVLOS approval unlocking Dallas-Fort Worth expansion.
View profile →Wingcopter
Weiterstadt, Germany · Private
German all-electric delivery drone manufacturer. Wingcopter 198 combines vertical take-off with fixed-wing efficiency. Deepest medical and emergency-supply delivery operating record in Europe and Africa.
View profile →Dronamics
Sofia, Bulgaria · Private
Europe's first licensed cargo drone airline. Black Swan platform addresses middle-mile logistics with 350 kg payload over 2,500 km range, a category that conventional cargo drones cannot serve.
View profile →FlyingBasket
Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy · Private
Italian heavy-lift cargo drone manufacturer. FB3 platform serves mountain emergency logistics and infrastructure resupply where conventional ground transport is too slow. Strategic equity from Leonardo.
View profile →Meituan
China (incorporated in the Cayman Islands) · HKEX: 3690
Chinese local-services platform with a commercial drone-delivery operation: 70 routes and more than 780,000 cumulative orders by the end of 2025, across mainland China, Hong Kong and Dubai.
View profile →SEGMENT 05, DEFENCE & GOVERNMENT
Primes, tactical systems, and dual-use platforms.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions
Round Rock, Texas, USA · NASDAQ: KTOS
Diversified US defence supplier whose unmanned-aircraft business includes jet-powered target drones and the Valkyrie tactical aircraft.
View profile →STARK
Berlin, Germany · Private
Berlin loitering-munition maker positioning as Europe's first venture-scale autonomous strike prime, anchored by a Bundeswehr order for its Virtus system.
View profile →Ondas
West Palm Beach, Florida, USA · NASDAQ: ONDS
Publicly listed autonomous-defence platform. A roll-up of ISR, counter-UAS, and drone-in-a-box infrastructure, scaled through the $875.8 million DZYNE Technologies acquisition.
View profile →Quantum Systems
Gilching (Munich), Germany · Private
German developer of software-defined autonomous reconnaissance and multi-domain unmanned systems, and one of Europe's most highly valued defence-technology companies following its July 2026 Series D.
View profile →Insitu
Bingen, Washington, USA · Parent: NYSE: BA
Pioneer of long-endurance small-tactical UAS. ScanEagle has more than 100,000 operational flight hours with US DoD and international customers. Archer Aviation agreed on 9 August 2026 to acquire Insitu, Wisk and SkyGrid from Boeing, subject to customary closing conditions.
View profile →Saronic
Austin, Texas, USA · Private
Builder of autonomous surface vessels for defence and commercial use, from the 24-foot Corsair to the 180-foot Marauder, now investing in its own shipyards.
View profile →Tekever
Portugal · Private
European maker of long-range surveillance drones. Its AR5 was selected for the British Army's Project Corvus to replace Watchkeeper.
View profile →Vannevar Labs
San Francisco, California, USA · Private
Defence software company built by former intelligence-community staff. Its Decrypt platform organises and translates foreign-language information for military and intelligence users.
View profile →General Atomics
California, USA · Private
Privately held defence group whose aeronautical arm, GA-ASI, makes the MQ-9 family and the FQ-42A Collaborative Combat Aircraft now in US Air Force production.
View profile →Lockheed Martin
Bethesda, Maryland, USA · NYSE: LMT
US defence prime (FY2025 revenue $75.0 billion). In uncrewed aircraft it is self-funding the Vectis combat drone at Skunk Works after missing CCA Increment 1 production.
View profile →SEGMENT 06, COUNTER-UAS
Detection, tracking, and defeat of rogue and adversarial drones.
Rheinmetall
Düsseldorf, Germany · FWB: RHM
Germany's largest defence prime and a leading European air-defence supplier. Its gun-based Skyranger and Skynex systems have become NATO's reference answer to the low-cost drone threat.
View profile →Epirus
Torrance, California, USA · Private
High-power microwave (HPM) counter-drone systems. Leonidas platform is the leading non-kinetic solution for defeating drone swarms at distance.
View profile →DroneShield
Sydney, Australia (with Virginia, USA operations) · ASX: DRO
Pure-play counter-UAS. Publicly listed Australian-headquartered specialist in AI-based detection and electronic-warfare drone defeat solutions for terrestrial, maritime, and airborne platforms.
View profile →Dedrone
Washington DC metropolitan area, USA · Parent: NASDAQ: AXON
AI-based airspace security platform. Acquired by Axon Enterprise (Taser maker) in October 2024. Now the counter-drone arm of one of the largest public-safety technology companies in the US.
View profile →Fortem Technologies
Lindon, Utah, USA · Private
Counter-UAS platform combining radar detection (TrueView) and autonomous interceptor drones (DroneHunter). Lockheed Martin strategic investor; sole-source US Army counter-drone supplier.
View profile →D-Fend Solutions
Ra’anana, Israel · Parent: NYSE: MSI
Israeli counter-drone specialist. EnforceAir uses RF cyber-takeover techniques to safely neutralise rogue drones without collateral damage or collateral disruption to legitimate airspace.
View profile →CHAOS Industries
Los Angeles, California, USA · Private
Defence technology scale-up. Coherent distributed networks (CDN) for sensing, detection, and counter-UAS effects. $1 billion total raised; $4.5 billion valuation in November 2025.
View profile →Hidden Level
Syracuse, New York, USA · Private
Tactical passive radar for counter-UAS. Sensor network architecture provides drone detection without active emissions, with $120M+ raised across three rounds since 2021.
View profile →Perennial Autonomy
California, USA · Private
Eric Schmidt-backed maker of drone interceptors and strike drones, proven against Shahed-type drones in Ukraine, now holding a $500 million Pentagon counter-drone contract.
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