Micro ISR
Nano One
Pocket situational awareness
- Sensors Thermal + 4K
- Weight 280 g
- Flight time 25 min
- Failsafe Auto-return + Lost-Link
$5.6B
Enterprise market opened by the DJI ban
America's Drone Company
Funded drone demand is outpacing U.S. supply. xCraft was built to close the gap.
A family of AI-driven, American-made utility drones — NDAA-compliant, patented defense and enterprise platforms engineered from the onset to beat Chinese technology.
5-Shark
Deal on ABC's Shark Tank
$1M
Best Buy purchase order secured
7
UAS platforms, one system
NDAA
Compliant · American-made
The Opening
A generational demand shock — with no domestic supply to meet it.
01
Demand outpaces supply
The Ukraine conflict proved small-drone utility at scale. Under the "American Drone Dominance" directive, U.S. agencies can now buy small drones like ammunition — and domestic production can't keep up.
02
China is being pushed out
The ban of DJI and other Chinese drones in the U.S. opens a $5.6 billion enterprise market to compliant, American-made alternatives.
03
Policy is the tailwind
Presidential and Pentagon initiatives are driving procurement toward NDAA-compliant U.S. manufacturers built for defense and critical infrastructure.
"Developed from the onset to beat Chinese technology."
The Fleet
One platform. Seven aircraft.
Common hardware and software across every class — swappable payloads, upgradable hardware, and off-the-shelf batteries. From micro-scale ISR to persistent tethered overwatch.
Mapping
Matrix Mapper
Survey & mapping
- Camera 26 MP mapping
- Flight time 25 min
- Wind tol. 25 MPH
- GCS QGroundControl
Multispectral
Matrix SE
Sensor-fusion survey
- LiDAR Ouster OS-1
- Optics FLIR · 26 MP
- Flight time 42 min
- Payload 4.4 lb
Tethered
Shadow V2.0
Persistent overwatch
- Flight 24 hr+ tethered
- Altitude Up to 100 ft
- Cameras RGB 4K · FLIR
- Standard NDAA-compliant
The Moat — ORDG Tactical Defense Stack
The signal will be cut. The drone keeps flying.
GPS / RF Signal
Mission continues
Every xCraft airframe is hardened by the Ozayatech R&D Group (ORDG) Tactical Defense Stack — delivering zero-SWaP, GPS-denied navigation and electronic-warfare resilience across the entire product line. Built for contested airspace and RF-degraded critical-infrastructure environments alike.
OAED
Buffer-layer EW defense
Hostile jamming and spoofed RF are authenticated and discarded at the buffer layer before ever reaching flight-control logic — the aircraft flies through EW zones without trajectory stutter or emergency lockouts.
ODNM
Offline waypoint tracking
When satellites drop, the system substitutes offline dead-reckoning bounded by internal airframe physics models. Pre-loaded mission waypoints stay 100% intact with zero satellite dependency.
OTIL
Resilient command & control
A universal C2 layer maintains guidance and recovery in GPS-denied conditions, keeping the platform mission-capable when conventional links fail.
0 g / 0 cm²
Zero-SWaP. A 100% software/firmware layer flashed directly onto existing flight-controller microcontrollers — STM32, Pixhawk, NVIDIA Orin. Fully infrastructure-independent: operates offline with no reliance on cellular towers or external RF beacons.
Traction & Proof
A rare deal — and real orders behind it.
Historic 5-Shark deal on ABC's Shark Tank
24 hr+
Shadow V2.0 persistent tethered flight
5 / 5
Sharks in on the Shark Tank deal
USA
Designed & manufactured, NDAA-compliant
Strategic Alliance & Partners
Ozayatech RDG
Airship Technologies Group
Sentera
KDI
Astral AI
Designed and manufactured in the U.S.A. — an NDAA-compliant, defense-and-enterprise platform with a Shark-Tank-backed track record and a secured Best Buy purchase order.
Market Opportunity
A large, defensible wedge into a growing market.
TAM
$30.6B
Global sUAS market by 2034
SAM
$6.7B
U.S. sUAS market by 2027
SOM
$13.0M
U.S. defense & enterprise sUAS, Year 3 target
Defense: $4–6B U.S. military drone TAM, 8–12% CAGR through 2030 — driven by American Drone Dominance procurement.
Enterprise: $5.6B TAM opened by the DJI ban — tower inspection, perimeter security, gas detection and mapping.
Leadership & Advisors
Aerospace pedigree. Defense credibility.
JC
JD Claridge
CEO & Co-Founder — aerospace engineer, ex-Daher Kodiak
CM
Charles Manning
Co-Founder — software architect & serial entrepreneur
BR
Burt Rutan
Advisor — legendary aircraft designer
BH
Blaine Holt
Advisor — Brig. Gen. (ret.), ex-NATO
BB
Ben Berry
Advisor — CEO, Airship Technologies Group
AH
Al Herron
CBDO — CEO, Ozayatech R&D Group
Board of Directors: JD Claridge (Chairman & CEO), Brian Garvey, Robert Barnes, Tied Caldwell (NASA export-compliance, Top Secret clearance), Al Herron.
Get in Touch
Built in America. Ready to scale.
xCraft is scaling production and pursuing DoD Blue UAS certification* to serve defense and critical-infrastructure customers with American-made, NDAA-compliant aircraft. On the roadmap:
Blue UAS certification — pursuing DoD compliance for federal procurement.
Manufacturing scale-up — Nano One & Matrix SE production runs.
GSA Catalog activation — streamlined government purchasing.
Defense & enterprise go-to-market — Security, Energy, and Public Safety.
Contact xCraft
For partnership, procurement, or briefing requests, reach our team and we'll follow up.
Contact xCraft Contact the founder*Blue UAS certification, GSA Catalog activation, and market figures referenced on this site are objectives and estimates, not current credentials or guarantees. This website is for general informational purposes only.