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Neros has received a $450M conditional loan commitment from the Office of Strategic Capital under the Department of War 🇺🇸, and is adding $165M in Neros equity to accelerate vertically integrated drone production and in-house component manufacturing. This combined $615M project will be used to scale America's drone industrial base.

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Cantos1 day ago

@DeptofWar Legendary work from the whole team here. Bravo 👏

Cassidy Waters1 day ago

@DeptofWar Big time!!!!!! Congrats 🎊

Molly O’Shea1 day ago

@DeptofWar Huge!! congrats!

jackpotz1 day ago

@DeptofWar good luck & congrats!

Friendo1 day ago

@DeptofWar where is the factory going to be?

Afan1 day ago

@DeptofWar wow, amazing guys, congrats!

Prescott Paulin1 day ago

@DeptofWar Congratulations @neros_tech! We look forward to working with you!

Kevin Neuburger | Reckoning1 day ago

@zanemountcastle @DeptofWar Drone Dominance wants about 300,000 attack drones by the end of 2027. This money buys factories, not drones. The number to watch next is units per month off the Neros line.

Ben1 day ago

@DeptofWar @GrinchGaaS well played by Deal Team 6 @DeptofWar

SapphirePlane1 day ago

@DeptofWar Well done. Just disappointed all your production jobs require an engineering bachelors. If you need to enhance staffing then a willingness to hire people without degrees to do assembly work under supervision by people with degrees could help a lot.

Obsidian Sensors1 day ago

@DeptofWar Congratulations! Dual-use Thermal cameras.

manohhoerse1 day ago

@DeptofWar Russians and Ukrainian neo-nazies armed with nothing but youtube and aliexpress manage to do this on a budget of whatever they had in their pockets at the time. These guys need half a billie to get started. I think investors should questions things.

Alec One1 day ago

@DeptofWar ⚓🎬😎Cool Investment Partnership.

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Under Secretary of War for Research & Engineering, & Department of War CTO Emil Michael (Under Secretary of War Emil Michael & Department of War CTO) says Neros Technologies is one of the emerging defense tech companies he is most excited about: "Everyone talks about Anduril & Palantir & SpaceX. Those are the 3 companies that in the last 10 years have broken into the defense sector to challenge Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, the older primes." "My job is to create 5 more companies that work in the department and bring new capabilities." " I'm excited about everything from Planet Labs that does commercial satellite imagery, to Neros the drone company, to Hadrian that's doing AI manufacturing." "These companies are awesome, and they're doing great things, and they're doing things that are hard, that involve hardware, not just software."

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