DoD Solution makes up to 600 drone autonomy modules a month and aims for 10,000

Estonian-Ukrainian defence company DoD Solution is producing 300 to 600 drone autonomy modules a month and wants to scale to 10,000, chief executive Roman Hapachylo told AIN. The next step is 1,000 a month, and the company is working on contracts that could get it there.

DoD Solution has no computer factory of its own; partner plants build the hardware, so an overloaded site can be swapped for another. The real constraint, Hapachylo said, is the availability and price of components, memory above all. "You need working capital to buy components in advance, so when you win a contract in Ukraine or abroad, you can deliver," he said.

The company raised $2.1 million in a pre-seed round, putting 70% into research and development and 30% into production. The task now, Hapachylo said, is turning battlefield-proven prototypes into products that can be ordered by the thousand.