The BPA allows any federal agency within the Department of Homeland Security to purchase drones from Teal, Geoffrey Hitchcock, Red Cat’s senior vice president of Global Defense Solutions, said in an interview. Plans call for the drones to be built in the company’s 25,000-square-foot manufacturing and engineering facility in Salt Lake City, Utah. Under an earlier contract award, Teal had delivered 54 Teal 2 drone systems to CBP last January. Under the current contract, the company plans to deliver another 101 systems to the border agency this month, Hitchcock said. “End-users, especially small buyers, right now are very concerned about — if they break a drone, having to send the entire drone back,” Hitchcock said.

Source: Forbes January 05, 2024 19:53 UTC