Company profile
PDW
PDW, or Performance Drone Works, develops small unmanned aircraft and mission software for defense users. The company builds tactical drones, autonomy tool...
Facts
- Segment
- DEFENSE
- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- Huntsville, Alabama
- Founded
- 2018
- Website
- https://www.pdw.ai/
About PDW
Performance Drone Works presents C100 and C100 AM aircraft, PDW Core software and PDW Sim as parts of a full-stack drone and operator-support portfolio. Its stated capabilities include mission planning, ATAK integration, simulator technology, training and operational support, alongside high-performance vehicles and a US-based manufacturing operation.
PDW targets defence and public-safety users with systems for troops in contact, crisis response and edge operations. Its manufacturing, training and operator-support activities are based in the United States. PDW reports 50,000 combined flight hours of testing across its team and development programmes.
Market context
DEPLOYMENT
Summary
Type: Defense drones
Core: Tactical UAVs
Function: Gather intelligence
Audience: Armed forces
Products
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- OSC signs up to $820m conditional loan commitment with PDW — 2026-07-31
- PDW agrees to acquire Vanteon to expand communications engineering capacity — 2026-06-04
- PDW raises over $110M Series B to expand modular military drone production — 2026-03-25
- PDW moves its Attritable Multirotor strike drone into production — 2026-03-24
- PDW validates long-range and GPS-denied sUAS performance during 9 Mile test series — 2026-03-20
- PDW releases CORE 1.4 for the C100 platform — 2026-03-02
- PDW demonstrates C100 support capabilities during Crimson Tomahawk 25 — 2026-02-18
- PDW supports Army Transformation in Contact units at the National Training Center — 2026-01-28