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Army

Army Rapidly Boosting UAS Component Production At Tobyhanna As It Moves Beyond SkyFoundry

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, June 30th, 2026

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Army Rapidly Boosting UAS Component Production At Tobyhanna As It Moves Beyond SkyFoundry

Circuit cards assembled at Tobyhanna Army Depot. Photo: Matthew Beinart.

TOBYHANNA, Pa.--The Army is rapidly bolstering its own ability to manufacture critical components for small drones, detailing plans to have capacity to build around a million circuit cards and hundreds of thousands of brushless motors in the near future at its Tobyhanna Army Depot. Army officials detailed how the effort is a pivot beyond the earlier SkyFoundry initiative to manufacture its own cheap drones in high numbers and toward a focus on using its organic industrial base (OIB) and advanced…

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