Dronehub Inc. is a Delaware C-Corp and SBIR/STTR-eligible US small business. Six funded European R&D programmes behind us — including the European Defence Agency, which scored us 98/100 on the CBRN counter-UAS programme. NATO-allied supply chain. Zero components from China or sanctioned states. NDAA Section 848 compatible by design.
If you're a programme manager evaluating a small-business prime, a defense integrator looking for the autonomy SME under your prime, or a federal lab assembling a STTR team — this page is the diligence pack we'd normally walk you through on the second call.
Procurement diligence — already half-done
These are not marketing claims — they're what gets verified during your security and supply-chain review. Lining them up ahead of time is how we cut six-to-twelve months off your programme start.
Dronehub Inc. is incorporated in Delaware. SBIR/STTR prime-eligible — your award goes to a US entity, not a foreign sub.
Vadym Melnyk holds an EB1A US green card. Personal vetting is already complete — not a future risk for your security review.
Zero components from China, Russia, Iran, or any sanctioned state. NDAA Section 848 compatible — engineered upstream, not patched after award.
Engineering data, build records, and operational telemetry on EU + US infrastructure only. No hyperscaler in adversarial jurisdictions.
The European Defence Agency scored us 98 out of 100 on the CBRN counter-UAS programme — first startup to work directly with the agency.
Round 6 selection — the world's largest unmanned-systems accelerator. $500K non-dilutive award. Now operating from Research Triangle, North Carolina.
European Space Agency, European Defence Agency, European Commission, Polish R&D Centre — independent agencies funded the work. Public record.
A decade of public R&D. Not a six-month wrapper around a stock airframe — a research-grade organization with a citable track record.
Programmes we fit
For each programme below, our role is concrete — small-business prime, technical sub, or co-PI — and our fit is grounded in specific deployed systems, not generic capability claims.
Capabilities that map directly to US defense
Each block below is a real, funded, deployed system from our portfolio — translated into the US defense use case it maps to. When the question is “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).
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. Polish R&D Centre award of $1.72M under the Mobile Charging Station programme.
HUUVER — the first hybrid drone that both flies and operates as a ground vehicle. First drone with full Galileo authentication. Led a 7-partner consortium across 5 EU countries. $1.75M total programme.
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 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 contract vehicle. We've operated under each model in adjacent European programmes and are ready to plug into the equivalent US path.
Dronehub Inc. is the prime awardee on SBIR/STTR programmes where small-business status is required. US Delaware entity, US bank, US tax presence, US-resident principal. The contracting officer sees a clean US small-business award path.
SBIR Phase I/II/III · STTR with academic partner · AFWERX Open Topic
Under your US prime — defense integrator, system house, or large-cap. We bring the autonomy stack, the AI, the airframe IP, the manufacturing path. You bring the contract vehicle and the customer relationship.
Lockheed · Raytheon · L3Harris · Anduril · Shield AI · Saab US · primes building dual-use programmes
Technology partnership without a formal sub-prime structure. Useful for federally-funded research labs, FFRDCs, and university-led STTR teams. We assign joint IP, contribute the engineering team, and deliver against jointly-defined milestones.
DARPA · ARL / AFRL / NRL · DOE labs · university STTR teams · FFRDCs
Why a small Polish R&D shop ended up here
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; we were the only one to respond, and the resulting contract pivoted us from services consulting to product. Subsequent programmes scaled the work up into national infrastructure (Deutsche Bahn AI rail inspection) and pan-European consortia (HUUVER hybrid UAV-UGV, AUDROS counter-UAS with the European Defence Agency, U-Space4UAM urban air mobility, UAV Nomad mobile drone-in-a-box).
The thesis throughout: every system we build must be sovereign by design (no CN/RU/IR dependency), dual-use by intent (commercial OPEX + national-security utility), and licensable by structure (assignable IP, not a single-customer black box). That made the move to US federal innovation a configuration step, not a pivot.
Dronehub Inc. — the US entity — was incorporated in Delaware. The founder secured EB1A US permanent residency. GENIUS NY (the world's largest unmanned-systems accelerator) selected us for Round 6 with a $500K non-dilutive award. The US base is now in the Research Triangle, North Carolina — co-located with the federal-innovation, defense, and aerospace cluster around RTP. The manufacturing path stayed in NATO Europe — Jasionka, Poland — where the engineering bench, the funding ecosystem, and the non-CN supply chain already operate. The Jasionka production line is fully online as of 2025.
Honest paperwork status
Most foreign-origin vendors dress up paperwork they don't actually hold. We don't. Below is the exact status — the kind of disclosure your programme office will appreciate before we ever get to a kickoff meeting.
Delaware C-Corp · SBIR/STTR-eligible · EB1A founder · NATO-allied supply chain (zero CN/RU/IR components) · NDAA Section 848 compatible · EU + US data sovereignty · six funded EU R&D programmes · European Defence Agency 98/100 on CBRN · GENIUS NY portfolio · Forbes Poland, FT 1000.
Blue UAS Cleared submission — under preparation for formal DIU review (subject to that programme's own timeline). Capability statement and SF 33-aligned past-performance brief — available on direct request, in active update.
We do not claim ITAR-registered, FedRAMP-authorized, or DoD-approved. ITAR DDTC registration is opened when a specific programme requires it. FedRAMP ATO is opened on a programme of record. DoD approval is not a status — it's an outcome of a contract action. We don't dress up paperwork we don't have.
Next move
The fastest path is a 30-minute introductory call — bring the programme topic and the contract vehicle, and we'll come with the technical fit, the past-performance brief, and the engagement structure that matches.