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• A shift is underway in drone manufacturing. Government programs like the U.S. Department of War’s Drone Dominance, a $1.1 billion effort to deliver low-cost, one-way attack (OWA) sUAS at scale,...
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A shift is underway in drone manufacturing. Government programs like the U.S. Department of War’s Drone Dominance, a $1.1 billion effort to deliver low-cost, one-way attack (OWA) sUAS at scale, are driving urgent demand for drones that are inexpensive, resilient, and rapidly producible. Or the US Army’s recent “Best Drone Warfighter Competition,” which was recently hosted in Huntsville, AL, that included dozens of teams competing with various platforms and different capabilities. At the same time, advances in additive manufacturing (AM) are changing what’s possible: lighter structures, faster iteration, and local, high-rate production. The result is a new industrial logic for unmanned aerial systems (UAS) that are based on speed, availability, and performance.
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