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

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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