Company

About Droneforce.

Droneforce designs, builds, and operates autonomy hardware and software systems for businesses and government. We fly challenging missions served by manned aircraft. Made in the USA, so your compliance is easy.

What we believe

Roads are optional. The sky is the future.

Droneforce is building an autonomy prime for business and government.

“Autonomy with SI will create abundance in the way we live, the way business is done, and the way governments operate. We must accelerate.”

Mission

We create the world’s highest price to performance, mass-market autonomous drones. Welcomed by communities and accelerating the adoption of autonomy.

Vision

We will do our part to ensure the United States reclaims drone superiority by becoming the world’s leading drone autonomy software, hardware, and services company.

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, and the US Air Force. The unfair advantage is knowing what not to redesign.

Will Lovis, Founder and CEO of Droneforce
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 · US Air Force
Milestones

Everything here has already happened.

  1. May 2026

    First public debut

    The Droneforce 55 and Droneforce HP are shown at AUVSI Xponential 2026.

  2. June 2026

    CAGE code received

    The company becomes identifiable to U.S. federal contracting systems.

  3. June 2026

    Fremont R&D facility established

    The Fremont, California facility opens as the research and development home for the company.

  4. September 2026

    Orders open on the third platform

    The DF800 quadcopter completes the fleet: fixed-wing, quadcopter, and the gated HP.

Values

How we work.

Ability

We value hard work and recognize exceptional ability. This is our tribe.

Courage

We say and do hard things without delay.

Design

We reject constraints not imposed by the physical world.

Simplicity

Minimalism is excellence.

Ambition

Our market position is frontier.

Exceptionalism

We improve freedom for global citizens by enabling US excellence.

Freedom

Our products are class leading, but without encroaching on freedoms or privacy.

Community

Our products must be welcomed by and make communities we serve better.

Convention

We reject convention and embrace invention.

Commercial Government