Pacific · Ag · Utility
San Francisco
Bay Area · Central Valley agriculture · PG&E transmission · wine country · Monterey · the Sierra wildfire zone.
Debut · AUVSI XPONENTIAL · Detroit · May 2026
Serious drone networks that solve the BVLOS dead zone.
Autonomous, long-range fixed-wing aircraft. 100+ mile range. Part 108 ready. Manned-aircraft-quality sensor payloads. Networked and integrated with the systems you already run — so pipeline, utility & rail, and agriculture are finally addressable.
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FIRST FLIGHT · MAY 2026
Droneforce™ 55 · Multiple patents pending
100+ mi
BVLOS range
Satellite
Global C2 link
Part 108
Ready by design
Pro-grade
Sensor payload
The Thesis
Our sweet spot is where the market wants to fly. Almost no one else can.
Between short-range delivery drones and Group 3+ military platforms sits a 60–185 mile band of US airspace incumbents can’t economically cover — the BVLOS dead zone. It’s the Droneforce™ sweet spot. One aircraft unlocks the corridor; a networked Droneforce™ fleet upgrades your operation.
Range band · mi 0 — 250+
Consumer quadcopters
0-4 mi
Short-range delivery
4-15 mi
Hand-launch tactical
15-60 mi
Underserved
60-185 mi
Droneforce™
Sweet spot
Sweet spot
Group 3+ strategic
185+ mi
100 miles, drawn
What a 100-mile radius actually covers.
Range is abstract. A radius on a map is not. From any operating base, Droneforce™ 55 reaches anything inside a 100-mile circle — persistently, autonomously, without ground-based radio infrastructure. And because satellite coverage reaches everywhere, mission command runs from any desk on Earth — San Francisco, Houston, Detroit, or wherever the operator happens to be.
Gulf Coast · Energy
Houston
Gulf Coast petrochemical corridor · Port of Houston pipelines · East Texas oil & gas · Beaumont refining belt.
Great Lakes · Industrial
Detroit
Great Lakes rail corridors · Michigan agriculture · southern Ontario gas infrastructure — and, from the XPONENTIAL floor, the length of Michigan’s linear infrastructure network.
Coverage
A handful of networked aircraft. A whole region covered.
100+ mile range per aircraft stacks into continuous coverage along the corridors that matter. One networked Droneforce™ fleet covers a multi-state pipeline end-to-end — deconflicted and scheduled by Droneforce One, integrated with the systems your operations team already uses.
Example network
A 15 drone network.
1,500 miles to image. End-to-end coverage.
Illustrative · ~1,500-mile pipeline system · 15 networked bases · 100+ mi range each
Platform
Purpose-built for the missions the market can’t fly today.
An autonomous fixed-wing airframe engineered to manned-aircraft reliability and safety standards. Designed around a simple premise: if the aircraft can’t stay aloft long enough, reach far enough, and carry the right sensor, the data doesn’t exist. Every subsystem — airframe, propulsion, autonomy, payload, link — is engineered toward that outcome.
Droneforce™ 55 Multiple patents pending
- BVLOS Range
- 100+ mi
- Propulsion
- Electric
- C2 / Data Link
- Satellite · primary
- Edge Compute
- AI/ML · on-board
- Software Platform
- Droneforce One · open APIs
- Regulatory Path
- Part 108 ready · BlueUAS by design
- Sensor Payload
- Manned-aircraft-quality EO/IR, multispectral, LiDAR
- Mission Profile
- Corridor inspection · asset monitoring · area coverage
Electric Propulsion
Quieter and safer than exposed props.
The electric motor is self-contained and quieter than an open rotor. Neighborly overhead for the communities below and safer on the ground for lightly trained crews and bystanders.
Payload Bay
Generous envelope. Pro-grade sensors and modular mission loadouts.
Methane sensors, hyperspectral imagers, mapping-grade LiDAR. Most small UAS can carry one at a time. Few have the bay volume or modularity for the full pro-grade stack.
Live Mission View
And you don’t have to be there.
Live mission view from any desk, in-flight retasking as the operation evolves. Designed so the operator doesn’t need to be in the field — just connected.
Applications
The missions that keep critical systems running.
Pipeline, power, farmland, infrastructure — the operations the country actually runs on. Droneforce™ delivers persistent autonomous coverage at distances and economics that no previous generation of commercial platform could match.
Linear Imaging - Focused Launch
Pipeline Integrity
Persistent corridor inspection for oil, gas, and utility rights-of-way. Automated anomaly detection, geo-referenced reporting, and revisit cadences the crews you have today can’t match.
- ROW patrol at scale
- Leak & encroachment detection
- Turnkey reporting pipeline
Linear Imaging - Focused Launch
Precision Agriculture
Multispectral and EO/IR mission profiles across large acreage. Crop health indices, irrigation stress mapping, and season-long temporal stacks — at the revisit frequency the crop actually needs.
- Large-block acreage
- NDVI / multispectral capture
- Stand-count and yield maps
Linear Imaging - Focused Launch
Utility & Rail Corridors
Pipeline, utility transmission, and rail are three expressions of the same capability — linear BVLOS corridor inspection with real-time data backhaul. The missions helicopters used to fly, at a cadence and cost profile that matches how fast the asset actually changes.
- Transmission & distribution rights-of-way
- Rail corridor inspection
- Real-time data backhaul
Separate program - On request
Government and Defense
Search-and-rescue, wildfire surveillance, and US defense operations run on a higher-performance Droneforce™ HP airframe. Distinct platform, program, supply chain, and team from the commercial fleet.
- Search & rescue
- Wildfire surveillance
- US defense operations
The How
The engineering that makes the rest possible.
Long-range autonomous fixed-wing is an integration problem. These are the four sub-systems we didn’t cut corners on.
01 · Autonomy
Droneforce™ One Mission Planning
Automated corridor, grid, and persistent-loiter mission generation. Contingency logic and fail-safe behaviors built in, not bolted on.
02 · Edge
AI/ML on-board
Compute for real-time detection, classification, and geotagging at the airframe. Reduces link bandwidth, accelerates time-to-insight for customers.
03 · Link
Satellite C2 and data
Persistent satellite connectivity for command-and-control and payload downlink. Global coverage without terrestrial radio infrastructure.
04 · Operations
Networked Fleet Assets
Droneforce One schedules, deconflicts, and coordinates a networked fleet across distributed sites. Open APIs let your dispatch, asset-management, and data pipelines talk to the network directly — one integration covers every aircraft.
Compliance
Engineered for next-generation compliance, from the airframe up.
The Droneforce™ 55’s airframe, avionics, and supply chain are aligned with the commercial BVLOS regulatory path from day one — Part 108, BlueUAS, and the FAA waiver workflow operators actually fly under.
Operational pathway
Part 107 today
Part 107 compliant for line-of-sight operations today. For BVLOS inspection corridors, we work with operators on FAA waivers — the standard industry mechanism for reaching BVLOS operations under current rules.
Safety & reliability
Part 108 ready
Airframe, avionics, and autonomy designed for Part 108, not retrofitted.
Federal civilian eligible
BlueUAS by design
Supply chain, components, and software pipeline architected to satisfy BlueUAS criteria from the first flight. Eligible for federal civilian procurement.
Flight validation path
Test-range engagement
Active coordination with FAA-coordinated test ranges for autonomy, link, and payload validation. Repeatable environment as the program progresses toward operational authorization.
Team
Built by engineers with a generation of American aerospace behind them.
A founder and advisory bench drawn from Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Scaled Composites, NASA, and the US Air Force. The unfair advantage is knowing what not to redesign.
Founder & CEO
Will Lovis
Former Lockheed Martin drone engineer, with a successful mid-career exit already on the board. Multiple years of industry experience across Energy, Utility, and Defense. BS aerospace engineering for the airframe, MS industrial engineering for mass manufacturing and system integration, and an MBA for strategy and commercial execution.
100+ YEARS
Combined aerospace and aviation expertise
MULTIPLE
Patents received and pending across the founding team and advisory bench
PEDIGREE
Lockheed Martin · Northrop Grumman · Scaled Composites · NASA · US Air Force
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