Unmanned vehicles are entering a new era. They’re more accessible, advancing faster, and riding a wave of commercial innovation in autonomy, sensors, batteries, and aero platforms. But on the payload side, the defense world doesn’t have a commercial sector driving the same pace of advancement.
Oilfield energetics does.
For decades, the oilfield industry has produced shaped charges and related energetics at volumes, efficiencies, and cost structures the defense ecosystem rarely touches. The technology is mature, the manufacturing methods are proven, and the supply chains were built for repetition, reliability, and scale.
That’s why we deploy this expertise. The oilfield sector already solved many of the production-rate and unit-cost challenges that modern unmanned systems now face. Bringing that experience forward opens the door to faster, more scalable approaches to next-generation energetics.
If this direction resonates with your mission, we’d love to connect. We’re especially interested in hearing from teams building unmanned platforms, integrators looking for scalable energetic options, and organizations evaluating new payload concepts. We can provide commercialized shaped-charge–based energetics for early assessment, data collection, and feedback, and we’re actively engaging with partners exploring forward-leaning federal initiatives in the unmanned space.
If you’re exploring what’s possible in this new era of unmanned systems, reach out. FAE is ready to collaborate.
