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Swarm Aero opens its Advanced Manufacturing Center in Fayetteville

Feb 18, 2026 · Facility Opening · Swarm Aero · Defence

  • Swarm Aero announced the opening of its 80,000-square-foot Advanced Manufacturing Center at Drake Field in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
  • The company said the site would accelerate development and deployment of its large UAV and eventually support production at the level of thousands of aircraft.
  • The release also said the operation is expected to create hundreds of high-skill aerospace jobs over the next decade.

Swarm Aero is a defence unmanned-systems company building UAV swarms, onboard collaborative autonomy, and swarm-scale command-and-control software. The company positions its stack around aircraft designed from the ground up for swarming, with mission software that lets small teams coordinate large numbers of uncrewed vehicles in communications-limited, contested environments.

Company
Swarm Aero
Segment
Defence
Event type
Facility Opening
Geography
Oxnard, California · United States