Urbanicity Research Β· Industry Map

U.S. Companies Making Drones

A living map of American firms designing and manufacturing unmanned aircraft systems β€” from delivery and agriculture to defense and heavy-lift β€” with live market signals and current news.

66 companies 26 Commercial & industrial18 Defense & public safety8 Autonomous delivery7 Agriculture 26 states
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Market Watch

Publicly-traded drone & UAS-relevant names Β· 1-year price performance (normalized to 0%)
NOCNorthrop GrummanCap $74.9B
$526.93
β–Ό -4.25%
LHXL3HarrisCap $47.9B
$257.27
β–Ό -7.35%
AVAVAeroVironmentCap $5.7B
$111.96
β–Ό -9.37%
AMZNAmazon Β· Prime AirCap $2.90T
$268.58
β–² 7.14%
GOOGLAlphabet Β· Wing
$291.65
β–² 4.15%
ACHRArcherCap $3.2B
$4.14
β–² 0.12%
JOBYJobyCap $5.0B
$5.10
β–² 5.05%

Quotes from Urbanicity Research market cache; chart series via 1-year daily closes. Private firms (Skydio, Anduril, Shield AI, Zipline, etc.) are not shown β€” no public ticker.

Company Directory

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Defense & public safety

A2Z

πŸ“ Torrance, CA

Long-range cargo and patrol drones; hardware designed and assembled in the U.S.

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A2Z Drone Delivery

πŸ“ Torrance, CA

Delivery-drone maker; its drones are designed, assembled and supported in the U.S.

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Commercial & industrial

Action Drone USA

πŸ“ San Diego, CA

Industrial sUAS manufacturer; develops and customizes small unmanned aerial systems for specific payloads and missions.

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Defense & public safety

AeroVironment

πŸ“ Arlington, VA

Military contractor producing small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) such as the Raven and Switchblade.

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Autonomous delivery

AgEagle Aerial Systems

πŸ“ Wichita, KS

Designs and delivers agricultural drones and flight hardware.

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Agriculture

AguaDrone Innovations

πŸ“ Vero Beach, FL

Offers fishing-oriented drones with interchangeable pods.

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Autonomous delivery

Airgility

πŸ“ College Park, MD

Builds hybrid VTOL drones for search-and-rescue, inspection and delivery.

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Defense & public safety

Alta Aero (Ascent Aerosystems)

πŸ“ Boxborough, MA

Designs rugged coaxial drones for industrial, public-safety and defense markets.

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Autonomous delivery

Amazon Prime Air (Amazon)

πŸ“ Seattle, WA

Designed and built more than two dozen delivery-drone prototypes for its Prime Air service.

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Defense & public safety

Anduril Industries

πŸ“ Costa Mesa, CA

Defense-technology company building autonomous aircraft such as the FURY combat drone; expanding production in Ohio.

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Commercial & industrial

Applied Aeronautics

πŸ“ Austin, TX

Produces affordable fixed-wing drones like the Albatross UAV for surveying and mapping.

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Defense & public safety

Asylon Robotics

πŸ“ Waltham, MA

Builds the Guardian security drone and integrates drones, ground robots and AI to provide autonomous perimeter-security systems.

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Defense & public safety

BlueHalo

πŸ“ Arlington, VA

Makes the Intense Eye V2 quadcopter, a 750 mm ready-to-fly drone assembled in the U.S. and cleared under the DoD Blue UAS list.

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Commercial & industrial

Blue Vigil

πŸ“ Chantilly, VA

Manufactures tethered aerial lighting systems (AL1000) that use drone technology to elevate high-intensity LED arrays.

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Defense & public safety

BRINC Drones

πŸ“ Seattle, WA

U.S. public-safety drone manufacturer offering an end-to-end ecosystem for law-enforcement and first-responder drones.

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Commercial & industrial

Camflite

πŸ“ Pennsylvania

Develops modular UAV platforms with quick-swap components.

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Commercial & industrial

Censys Technologies

πŸ“ Daytona Beach, FL

Designs and manufactures fixed-wing VTOL drones and docking systems; all aircraft are built in Daytona Beach.

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Commercial & industrial

Cleo Robotics

πŸ“ Boston, MA

Designs ducted-fan drones for indoor inspection.

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Cinematography & racing

DragonFly Drones

πŸ“ Beverly Hills, CA

Offers multi-rotor drones for film and cinematography.

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Commercial & industrial

Drone America

πŸ“ Reno, NV

Builds fixed-wing and VTOL drones for disaster relief and mapping.

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Defense & public safety

Easy Aerial

πŸ“ Brooklyn, NY

Produces military-grade autonomous drone-in-a-box systems that deploy free-flight or tethered configurations.

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Cinematography & racing

Equinox Innovation Systems

πŸ“ College Park, MD

Designs autogyro drones and camera platforms for inspection.

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Commercial & industrial

FlightWave Aerospace

πŸ“ Santa Monica, CA

California-based developer of long-range autonomous VTOL drones such as the Edge 130.

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Cinematography & racing

Freefly Systems

πŸ“ Woodinville, WA

Builds advanced camera drones and gimbals for cinematography.

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Agriculture

GreenSight Agriculture

πŸ“ Boston, MA

Creates VTOL survey drones for turf management and agriculture.

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Agriculture

Guardian Agriculture

πŸ“ Massachusetts

Manufactures large crop-spraying drones with 200-pound payloads; operates from a 60,000-sq-ft plant in MA.

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Agriculture

Harris Aerial

πŸ“ Casselberry, FL

U.S. manufacturer of heavy-lift multirotor drones engineered for heavy-lift and agricultural missions.

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Commercial & industrial

Hitec Commercial Solutions

πŸ“ San Diego, CA

Produces industrial multi-rotor drones and controllers.

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Agriculture

Hylio

πŸ“ Richmond, TX

Builds crop-spraying UAVs and provides agricultural drone services.

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Defense & public safety

Innova Drone

πŸ“ San Diego, CA

Develops unmanned air vehicles for defense and commercial markets.

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Commercial & industrial

Insitu (Boeing subsidiary)

πŸ“ Bingen, WA

Pioneer in the design, production and operation of high-performance uncrewed aircraft systems.

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Commercial & industrial

Inspired Flight

πŸ“ San Luis Obispo, CA

Builds enterprise-grade quadcopter and hexacopter drones for surveying and photogrammetry.

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Defense & public safety

L3Harris Technologies

πŸ“ Melbourne, FL

Designed and manufactures the FVR-90 VTOL unmanned aerial system used by the U.S. Air Force.

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Commercial & industrial

Lucid Bots

πŸ“ Charlotte, NC

Manufactures and sells large Sherpa drones used for washing building exteriors.

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Cinematography & racing

Lumenier

πŸ“ Sarasota, FL

Produces FPV racing drones and custom UAV components.

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Autonomous delivery

Matternet

πŸ“ Mountain View, CA

Maker of the M2 drone system for medical and goods delivery.

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Agriculture

Meadowlark Aircraft

πŸ“ Grand Forks, ND

Develops fixed-wing UAS for agriculture and mapping.

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Commercial & industrial

ModalAI

πŸ“ San Diego, CA

Designs autopilots and open-source SDKs for small drones; compiles a U.S. manufacturers list.

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Defense & public safety

Northrop Grumman

πŸ“ Falls Church, VA

Produces the Bat family of medium-altitude, multi-mission unmanned aircraft systems for defense.

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Defense & public safety

Paladin Drones

πŸ“ Houston, TX

Makes autonomous drones for first-responder and public-safety response.

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Industrial heavy-lift

Parallel Flight Technologies

πŸ“ La Selva Beach, CA

Develops heavy-lift hybrid drones for firefighting and industrial logistics.

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Defense & public safety

Parrot Drones (ANAFI USA)

πŸ“ Massachusetts & Boston

The ANAFI USA drone is designed in Europe and made in the USA for defense and enterprise users.

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Commercial & industrial

PteroDynamics

πŸ“ Colorado Springs, CO

Designs autonomous VTOL aircraft using a patented Transwing system combining fixed-wing efficiency with VTOL performance.

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Commercial & industrial

RoboDub

πŸ“ Seattle, WA

Develops drones with morphing arms for versatile missions.

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Defense & public safety

Robotic Research

πŸ“ Clarksburg, MD

Provides autonomous vehicle and UAS solutions for defense and commercial applications.

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Commercial & industrial

Saxon Unmanned

πŸ“ Hutchinson, KS

Makes flexible-platform drones for emergency and industry use.

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Agriculture

Sentera

πŸ“ St. Paul, MN

Produces agricultural scouting drones and sensors for precision agriculture.

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Defense & public safety

Shield AI

πŸ“ San Diego, CA

Defense-technology company building fully autonomous quadcopters (Nova) and VTOL aircraft such as V-BAT.

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Commercial & industrial

SICDRONE

πŸ“ Oregon

Develops high-performance tilt-rotor drones for industrial missions.

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Commercial & industrial

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC)

πŸ“ Sparks, NV

Designs unmanned aircraft such as the Vigilant fixed-wing platform.

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Commercial & industrial

Skydio

πŸ“ San Mateo, CA

The largest U.S.-based drone manufacturer; builds autonomous drones like Skydio X2 and invests in U.S. manufacturing.

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Commercial & industrial

Skyfish

πŸ“ Stevensville (Missoula), MT

Manufactures the Skyfish M4 and M6 drones at its Montana plant; U.S.-made commercial drones.

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Commercial & industrial

Skypersonic

πŸ“ Detroit, MI

Produces small tethered drones for indoor inspection.

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Commercial & industrial

SmartDrone Services

πŸ“ Tyler, TX

Develops the SmartDrone Discovery surveying drone and provides drone services.

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Defense & public safety

Teal Drones (Teal)

πŸ“ Salt Lake City, UT

Builds Blue-UAS-approved surveillance drones like the Golden Eagle and Teal 2 for defense and public safety.

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Cinematography & racing

Teledyne FLIR

πŸ“ Wilsonville, OR

Designs thermal-imaging sensors and manufactures drones with integrated FLIR cameras.

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Commercial & industrial

Uniform Sierra Aerospace

πŸ“ West Lafayette, IN

Creates autonomous drones for research and training.

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Commercial & industrial

Unmanned Systems of America

πŸ“ Albuquerque, NM

Manufactures sUAS for mapping and inspection.

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Cinematography & racing

UVify

πŸ“ San Francisco, CA

Produces high-performance racing drones and swarm drones.

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Commercial & industrial

Vantage Robotics

πŸ“ San Leandro, CA

Builds portable Vesper drones for government and commercial use.

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Autonomous delivery

Vayu

πŸ“ Ann Arbor, MI

Makes hybrid fixed-wing drones for cargo and medical deliveries.

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Defense & public safety

Vision Aerial

πŸ“ Bozeman, MT

Designs and manufactures industrial multirotor drones like the SwitchBlade-Elite; used by the U.S. Air Force and energy sector.

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Autonomous delivery

Wing (Alphabet)

πŸ“ Mountain View, CA

Alphabet company that designs and operates lightweight, highly automated delivery drones capable of 20-km round-trip flights.

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Commercial & industrial

WingXpand

πŸ“ St. Louis, MO

Builds a backpack-portable fixed-wing drone with telescoping wings, funded through SBIR.

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Defense & public safety

xCraft

πŸ“ Coeur d'Alene, ID

Makes customizable, long-endurance drones for enterprise and defense.

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Autonomous delivery

Zipline

πŸ“ South San Francisco, CA

American robotics company that designs, manufactures and operates autonomous delivery drones; expanding its U.S. plant to up to 15,000 aircraft per year.

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Industry News

Live drone / UAS headlines Β· auto-refreshed
Pentagon Backs $615M Deal to Scale California Drone Manufacturing - Manufacturing.net
Manufacturing.net Β· Nov 4
7 Best Drone Stocks to Buy in 2026 | Investing - U.S. News - Money
U.S. News - Money Β· Oct 29
Oshkosh Defense to pilot drone manufacturing - Janes Defence Intelligence
Janes Defence Intelligence Β· Nov 4
MI-based drone company to create β€˜an American-made drone for the American farmer’ - Michigan Farm News
Michigan Farm News Β· Nov 4
How did Israeli start-up XTEND go from gaming company to drone warfare leader? - The Jerusalem Post
The Jerusalem Post Β· Nov 4
Neros plans $615M drone manufacturing expansion in US - Manufacturing Dive
Manufacturing Dive Β· Nov 3
Is Trump’s Plan to Build a U.S. Drone Industry Working? - Dronelife
Dronelife Β· Nov 2
Drone Maker Teams With Ukraine-Tested Firm to Beat Jamming - Streetwise Reports
Streetwise Reports Β· Nov 4
Drones built to look like birds evaded detection at Air Force tech exercise - Task & Purpose
Task & Purpose Β· Nov 3
US Starts at β€˜Basically Zero’ in Cheap Military Drones (Correct) - Bloomberg.com
Bloomberg.com Β· Oct 31
XTEND lays off 10% of workforce after losing 75% of its value since $1.5 billion NYSE debut - CTech
CTech Β· Nov 2
INLEAP Photonics Adds Manufacturing Capacity for Laser-Based Counter Drone Technology - Photonics Spectra
Photonics Spectra Β· Nov 3
Taiwan firm signs MOU with Ukrainian drone company on supply chains - Focus Taiwan
Focus Taiwan Β· Nov 4
A Renaissance Of U.S.-Based Drone Battery Production - Inside Unmanned Systems
Inside Unmanned Systems Β· Nov 3
Why Is the Pentagon Lending $450 Million to a Drone Developer? - The National Interest
The National Interest Β· Nov 3
Drone manufacturer acquires Manatee company, 12K-square-foot facility - Business Observer
Business Observer Β· Oct 20
Pentagon selects Bluffdale-based Vector for up to 5,000 drones - Utah Business
Utah Business Β· Nov 2
TAA Compliance Shapes Battery Strategy in America’s Drone Market - Battery Technology
Battery Technology Β· Nov 3

Headlines aggregated from public news search for drone / UAS / UAV manufacturers. Cached server-side.