Aerofoundry was founded in 2011 with the purpose of advancing unmanned vehicles through design, engineering and manufacturing technology.

Originally from Brazil, where we were based until 2016, when we moved our operations to Free Zones in the UAE and Mercosur, and entered strategic partnerships in China, US, Israel and Oceania.

We have customers in six continents, and a long aerial operations experience in the most varied environments, mostly harsh and unforgiving, with little or no logistics or support infrastructure.

Our history starts nearly 40 years ago, when working with airplanes and satellites, from which we moved into designing and operating aerial uncrewed aircraft after a troublesome contract we won in 2007, when we were awarded a large contract for tropical forest mapping and to set up an agroecological zoning a rural cadaster for a Northern Amazon State using hyperspectral imaging, and Lidar. Along the execution of that contract, due to a (serendipitous) combination of reasons, we had to switch the aerial component from using manned aircraft to uncrewed ones. The success of this adventurous decision showed us the way to the future of the aerial technology. From that moment on, we moved our aeronautics core business to UAV operations, and later into actually design and manufacture uncrewed aircraft.

Ours is an unusual company... we are customer-driven, not marketing-driven, and we define ourselves as a problem-solving Unmanned Systems Design House, and a flexible, efficient Unmanned Systems Foundry. We only offer real, reliable, technically sound, professional solutions as if they were for ourselves.

We are not sales enforcers of foam drones loaded with filtered low-end consumer cameras sold as 'multispectral', through mass marketing campaigns to show them as high-end products. Neither we sell overpriced Mil packages of export-controlled technologies, instead of better tailored solutions with flexible integration, aiming at a better control of how and where our platforms are used by the customers.

We design and manufacture aircraft and integrated advanced avionics, AI systems, and payload for the most varied requirements, including:

1. Intelligence gathering, surveillance operations, and reconnaissance purposes with laser pointing and illumination of targets;
2. Electronic warfare sensors and surveillance/intruding technologies;
3. Remote sensing using Lidar, photogrammetric cameras, spectrometers (hyperspectral and multispectral), and radars; and
4. Logistics of varied cargoes for civilian and military requirements.

Since 2016 we are working on our wide range of military aircraft solution packages, including advanced gimbals, AI navigation and targeting systems. This was extended significantly with our new Military Training Division with highly specialized Specialist with native English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese speaking capabilities, with experience in extreme environments, including tropical rainforests (Amazon, Central Africa) and extreme arid deserts (North Africa and Arabian).

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Dr. Daniel Dupré, CEO