Six funded programmes across the European Space Agency, the European Defence Agency (98/100 on the CBRN counter-UAS programme), the European Commission, and the Polish federal R&D agency. Eligible for the European Defence Fund, Horizon Europe, the European Innovation Council Accelerator, NATO DIANA, the NATO Innovation Fund, SESAR 3, and direct national-defense engagements.
If you're a consortium prime building an EDF or Horizon Europe proposal, a national defense ministry evaluating SME partners, or a European defense integrator looking for the autonomy and AI specialist under your prime — this page is the diligence pack we'd normally walk you through on the second call.
European credentials — verified, not claimed
These are not marketing claims — they're what European evaluators (ESA, EDA, EIC, EDF panels) check first when scoring a proposal. Coming in with them already validated is what makes the technical-merit case fast and the diligence step short.
The European Defence Agency scored Dronehub 98 out of 100 on the CBRN counter-UAS programme. We were the first startup ever to work directly with the agency — and the bar they applied is the same bar your downstream consortium partners will apply.
The AUDROS programme is the first project in history where the European Space Agency and the European Defence Agency jointly supported a company from the SME sector. The kind of credential that is impossible to fake and very hard to repeat.
European Space Agency, European Defence Agency, European Commission (Horizon 2020), and the Polish federal R&D Centre have all funded our work — across counter-UAS, hybrid UAV-UGV, urban air mobility, medical drone logistics, mobile autonomous infrastructure, and ski-slope safety.
A decade of operations inside Poland's aerospace cluster — the same cluster that has supplied NATO programmes for decades. Engineering bench, supply network, and supplier relationships all native to NATO Europe.
$7.5M production line in Jasionka, Poland — $2.75M funded by the Polish federal industrial-development agency. Fully online as of 2025. Sovereign EU manufacturing, audit-trail per unit.
Zero components from China, Russia, Iran, or any sanctioned state. NDAA Section 848 compatible — equally useful for EU industrial sovereignty (EDIS — European Defence Industrial Strategy) and US programme requirements. The same BOM works for both.
Forbes Poland 25 Under 25 (2020) and 30 Under 30 (2023). Forbes Ukraine 30 Under 30 (2024, panel including Valery Zaluzhny). Financial Times 1000 — #2 in Europe, Aerospace & Defense. Drone Industry Insights — global category leader, drone-in-a-box.
Sp. z o.o. (Polish LLC) in Poland (EU engineering + manufacturing) plus Dronehub Inc. in Delaware (US contracting). Native to both jurisdictions — the right entity for whichever contract vehicle your programme uses.
European programmes we fit
For each programme below, our role is concrete — consortium lead, work-package lead, technical SME, or eligible SME applicant — and our fit is grounded in specific deployed systems, not generic capability claims.
European technological sovereignty
The European Defence Industrial Strategy (March 2024) made sovereign EU industrial capacity a programme requirement, not a preference. Our entire engineering and supply approach has been inside that envelope since 2015 — long before EDIS made it official.
The European Defence Industrial Strategy (March 2024) calls for European industrial autonomy in defense procurement. We're already inside that envelope — EU-engineered, EU-manufactured, non-CN supply chain, dual-EU+US data path.
Zero components from China, Russia, Iran, or sanctioned states. Audit-trail per production unit. The same BOM works for EDIS, NDAA Section 848, and any other allied sovereignty requirement — engineered once, eligible everywhere.
Imagery, telemetry, build records, detections, and audit logs stay inside EU + US infrastructure. No hyperscaler in adversarial jurisdictions, no foreign-controlled SaaS dependency in the data path. Suitable for regulated and defense-grade workloads.
Founded in 2015 inside Aviation Valley — the Polish aerospace cluster that has supplied NATO programmes for decades. The engineering bench, the funding ecosystem, and the supplier network are all natively NATO-Europe. Not relocated. Not converted.
Capabilities mapped to European calls
Each block below is a real, funded, deployed system from our portfolio — paired with the European call topic and threat landscape it maps to. When an evaluator asks “has anyone built this and made it work?”, every answer here is yes.
In-house AI anomaly detection (the Halo Cloud platform) plus autonomous drone-in-a-box hardware. Per-fastener accuracy above 95%, sub-15-minute reports, 24/7 availability by design. Proven on Germany's 33,000-km Deutsche Bahn rail network.
Eagle One net-capture drone — physically intercepts hostile UAVs in flight. Tested with the Military Technical Institute of the Czech Republic (NATO member). The first-ever joint European Space Agency + European Defence Agency programme with an SME (AUDROS). Scored 98/100 by EDA on the CBRN counter-UAS programme.
UAV Nomad — our mobile drone-in-a-box. A ground vehicle (or any platform) that autonomously docks with airborne drones and swaps batteries at 30 km/h. Closes the persistent-air-cover gap for moving assets. $1.72M Polish federal R&D Centre programme (Mobile Charging Station).
HUUVER — the first hybrid drone that both flies and operates as a ground vehicle. First drone in the world integrated with full Galileo authentication. Led a 7-partner consortium across 5 EU countries. €1.5M+ programme (~$1.75M total).
Airvein — end-to-end autonomous network for medical cargo (blood, samples, organs). Hangar grid every 10–15 km, 24/7 all-weather operation. $1.24M Polish federal R&D Centre programme.
Stationary docking, autonomous launch, robotic battery swap inside the dock (2 minutes vs the 40–60 of competing systems). Edge + cloud compute split. The hardware platform behind the Deutsche Bahn deployment.
How we engage
Pick the structure that matches your programme's rules of participation. We've already operated under each — pick the one that fits, we'll handle the paperwork.
We assemble and coordinate a multi-country consortium around a specific call topic. We've led HUUVER (7 partners, 5 countries) and AUDROS (3 countries) — operational consortium leadership, not just nominal. Useful when the call topic centres on autonomy, c-UAS, or sovereign UAV infrastructure.
EDF · Horizon Europe · SESAR 3 · Eureka clusters
Under a larger prime or a national lab. We bring the autonomy stack, the AI, the airframe IP, the manufacturing path. Useful when your consortium needs the unmanned-systems and AI work-package filled by a partner who has already shipped that work in a public programme.
Airbus DS · Leonardo · Thales · Saab · MBDA · Hensoldt · Indra · PGZ · Honeywell EU
Technology partnership without a formal sub-prime structure. We assign joint IP, contribute the engineering team, and deliver against jointly-defined milestones. Useful for national MoDs, research labs, university-led calls, and bilateral programmes (Eureka, IPCEI-adjacent work).
DGA · BAAINBw · DSTL · MON · National defense innovation hubs · University primes
European pedigree, in one paragraph
Dronehub was founded in 2015 from a university pre-incubator in Aviation Valley, Rzeszow — Poland's aerospace cluster. In 2017 the European Space Agency issued a Request for Information to roughly fifty European drone companies looking for an autonomous drone hub partner. Only one company responded — Dronehub. The resulting contract pivoted the company from services consulting to a product identity.
What followed was a decade of public R&D under the most rigorous evaluators in Europe. The European Space Agency Business Applications programme funded SIS-SREM (ski-slope safety, deployed at Dolni Morava, Czech Republic). The European Space Agency and the European Defence Agency jointly funded AUDROS — the first time in history the two agencies co-funded an SME, scored 98/100 on the CBRN counter-UAS programme. The European Union Agency for the Space Programme funded HUUVER, the first drone in the world to integrate full Galileo authentication. The European Commission's Horizon 2020 programme funded U-Space4UAM under the SESAR Joint Undertaking, where we flew first across a 13-partner consortium alongside Honeywell, Lilium, and Vertical Aerospace.
In parallel, the Polish federal R&D Centre funded Airvein (medical drone logistics) and UAV Nomad — our mobile drone-in-a-box, originally the Mobile Charging Station programme (the world's first autonomous battery swap in motion). The Polish Agency for Enterprise Development funded the $7.5M Jasionka production line — now fully online as of 2025. The Deutsche Bahn deployment proved the AI stack at national scale on Germany's 33,000-km rail network.
Every one of those programmes left behind public funding records, named consortium partners, deployed reference sites, and citable evaluation scores. That's why European evaluators recognize the name. That's why your proposal evaluation goes faster with us in it.
Honest paperwork status
European evaluators are precise — overclaim destroys a proposal faster than under-claiming. Below is the exact status of the compliance and qualification paperwork. The kind of disclosure your consortium coordinator will appreciate before submission.
Six funded EU/national programmes with named consortium partners and deployed reference sites · European Defence Agency 98/100 on CBRN · ESA + EDA joint-funding precedent · Polish industrial-development grant validated under federal technical review · non-CN supply chain · EU+US data sovereignty · Galileo-authenticated UAV experience · operational EU manufacturing at Jasionka · dual-domicile (Sp. z o.o. + Delaware C-Corp).
Horizon Europe consortium proposals (Cluster 4 + Cluster 5 fits). European Defence Fund consortium discussions on c-UAS and dual-use autonomous infrastructure. NATO DIANA and NATO Innovation Fund engagement. National defense ministry conversations across Poland, France, Germany, and Czechia. Capability statement and consortium-coordinator briefing packs — available on direct request.
Next move
The fastest path is a 30-minute introductory call — bring the call topic and the consortium structure, and we'll come with the technical fit, the past-performance brief, and the engagement model that matches.