Inside American Drone Manufacturing

How Do You Scale BLUE UAS & NDAA Compliant Drone Production? 

Sovereign Sky brings together drone OEMs, drone service providers, component manufacturers and contract manufacturers to solve component bottlenecks and build cleared supply chains 

What’s in it for you?

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Drone OEMs
Learn how to replace non-cleared BOM components with qualified domestic suppliers without tripling your COGS

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Drone Service Providers
Discover how modular parts and localized additive manufacturing (AM) and CNC reduce fleet downtime and field repair cycles 

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Component Manufacturers
Identify active OEM bill-of-materials supply gaps (motors, ESCs, carbon fiber, RF) and get cleared for network sourcing 

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Contract Manufacturers
Learn how companies are using AM and CNC for rapid prototyping and scaling qualified end-use parts production

What to expect

  • Navigating NDAA, ASDA, and Blue UAS requirements without blowing up unit economics.

  • How OEMs use 3D printing from FFF polymers, metals to carbon fiber production to build airframes, propellers and drone components

  • Solving the Motor Bottleneck: How US Machine Shops Are Bridging the Magnet & Precision Winding Deficit

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“The domestic drone industry doesn't have a flight problem—it has a manufacturing and supply chain problem.  

Sovereign Sky Podcast was launched to bridge the gap by facilitating a Trusted, Intelligent, Cybersecure Distributed Advanced Manufacturing Ecosystem (TICDAME).”

— Dean Bartles, CEO Manufacturing Technology Development Group

Learn about our other drone initiatives

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Take the 10-Min
TICDAME Survey

Share what capabilities are required to enable your drone sourcing operations in our Trusted, Intelligent, Cybersecure, Distributed Additive Manufacturing Survey.

Complete the survey
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US Drone Manufacturing Study with Visiongain

We are inviting experienced US drone manufacturers (OEMs) and drone service providers to contribute their expertise to the study. Interviews are confidential and individual responses will not be attributed to participants or their organizations.

Apply to participate
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Improve FFF print quality with Feed Forward Control

MTDG partnered with Matterhackers to select 30 qualified facilities to test a brand-new Prusa Mk4s equipped with Feed Forward Control (FFC) technology and an IoT Edge telemetry device.

Learn about the program

Get in touch

Are you a Drone OEM, Drone Service Provider, Component or Contract Manufacturer that would be interested in joining our podcast or learning more about our cleared sourcing network?