Vector drone company

Vector profile

Q: Where can I research Vector directly?

Go to the primary sources: Nammo (partner company site) , Defense News — original report . Avoid aggregator summaries when the filing itself is available.

By Jonathan Tauzerus · reviewed against primary sources · updated October 22, 2026.

Vector is a Utah-based small-drone maker, launched in 2024, that is integrating Nammo munitions into its unmanned aircraft and supplies the HV-ESAD that connects a drone to its munition.

What Vector does

Vector Builds small unmanned aircraft for U.S. military customers and supplies the HV-ESAD, which both Vector and Nammo describe as the electronic interface that allows safe integration and controlled use of compatible munitions. Partners with Nammo Defense Systems, a Norwegian munitions maker with U.S. operations headquartered in Arizona, so the airframe and arming electronics come from Vector and the munition comes from Nammo.

Vector chief executive Andy Yakulis said the systems will be produced at scale and updated based on real-world requirements. Reporting on the October 2026 announcement disclosed no contract value, pricing, or revenue figures.

The product lines that define the company for research purposes:

HV-ESAD (High Voltage Electronic Safe Arm Device) drone-to-munition interface
Vector and Nammo Defense Systems munitions integration partnership (formed earlier in 2026, expanded October 2026)
Small unmanned aircraft listed on the Department of Defense (DoD) Blue List
DoD Drone Dominance program (reported top-five placement in the latest round)

This profile is qualitative by design. It carries no share price, no price target, no valuation multiple, and no rating — those change faster than any page can honestly track, and the filings linked below are the authoritative source for them.

Vector drone lineup

The current public product record does not identify a complete aircraft lineup.

No complete-aircraft offering is catalogued for this company; it is tracked here as an unmanned-systems enabler.

Statuses are editorial classifications from the company’s current public catalog: active means currently presented for sale, delivery, or program work; development means publicly disclosed but not a mature production offering; legacy means retained for historical or installed-fleet coverage.

Recent contracts & awards

A dated log of the specific contracts, orders, funding, and deployments reported for Vector, each tied to its primary source. This is a record of what was announced — a "selection", "award", or "partnership" is not the same as obligated money, so read each source before treating a figure as revenue. No figure appears here unless a source reported it.

AwardOct 22, 2026
Vector receives Phase III selection in USSOCOM Modular Kinetic Drone (MKLD) program; Hammer quadcopter added to DCMA
DRONELIFE reported on Oct. 22, 2026 that Utah-based Vector announced a Phase III selection in USSOCOM's MKLD program, which focuses on modular, expendable precision-strike drones for small special operations units, and DCMA Blue List designation for its Hammer foldable quadcopter. No contract value was disclosed, and the selection is described as a selection rather than obligated funding.
Researchers should confirm any resulting award and dollar amount through USSOCOM or official DoD contract records, and should treat the company's separate claim of orders for 5,000 systems under the Drone Dominance Program as company-reported until it is independently confirmed.
DroneLife — original report
PartnershipOct 12, 2026
Vector and Nammo Defense Systems expand partnership to integrate munitions into small drones
Vector and Nammo Defense Systems announced at the AUSA annual meeting on Oct. 12, 2026 that they had expanded their earlier 2026 partnership pairing Nammo munitions with Vector's small unmanned aircraft for U.S. military use, with Vector supplying its HV-ESAD (High Voltage Electronic Safe Arm Device) as the electronic interface between drone and munition.
No contract value, customer order, or production quantities were disclosed, so this is a company-to-company teaming agreement, not obligated government funding. Researchers should look for any resulting DoD contract award or Drone Dominance procurement tied to the integrated system, and check the Blue List and program records to confirm Vector's reported status.
Defense News — original report

Is Vector going public?

The October 2026 reporting names no ticker, exchange, or public listing for Vector, and no funding amounts are disclosed, so Vector is treated here as private with no ticker. To track any change in that status, search SEC EDGAR for registration filings or Form D offering notices under Vector's legal entity name.

Where Vector sits in the value chain

Vector is a pure-play: unmanned systems are the business rather than one line inside it, so the P&L moves with drone demand and has little else to cushion a slow procurement year.

Its disclosed activity spans aerial drones. That placement is the single most useful thing to fix in your head before reading any coverage, because the same headline means different things at different layers: a large platform award is transformative for a pure-play, material but diluted for a diversified contractor, and only indirectly relevant to a component supplier whose exposure arrives later as build-rate demand.

Retail coverage routinely applies one story to all three layers at once. For the layer-by-layer comparison across the sector, see the drone stocks research shortlist and the list of publicly traded drone companies.

What to watch

The signals worth tracking are structural, not price-based — they tell you whether the business is changing shape, which is what eventually shows up in the numbers.

Whether the expanded Vector and Nammo agreement produces a named DoD contract award with a disclosed value. The October 2026 announcement at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) annual meeting carried none.
Follow-on Drone Dominance rounds and any production orders tied to Vector's reported top-five placement, since that program is described as a billion-dollar effort to buy small drones built at scale.
Which Vector airframe holds the Blue List entry and whether more Vector models are added, because the listing records that a system passed DoD assessment and approval for military use.
Whether the HV-ESAD is offered with munitions from suppliers other than Nammo. Both companies describe it as working with compatible munitions, and broader compatibility would make the device a component other drone makers could buy.

How to research Vector

Every question below has one authoritative source, and using the wrong source is how most retail research goes wrong.

Research question	Where the answer lives	What to look for
Is there anything to buy?	SEC EDGAR full-text search	Whether any registration statement exists at all — absent one, there is no public security.
Is the government work real?	Official DoD contract announcements	Awarding service and scope of work, rather than a company-issued announcement.
What is the acquisition pathway?	DIU and DARPA program pages	Whether the work runs through non-traditional agreements or a conventional program of record.
How would exposure even work?	Fund holdings disclosures	Whether any listed vehicle discloses a stake — indirect exposure is usually thin and unstated.

The triggering event, the executive quotes, and the Drone Dominance placement come from Defense News (Oct. 12, 2026). That report cites Vector's own website for the founding details: a 2024 launch by three veterans, including Andy Yakulis, plus the founder of Teal Drones, which Red Cat later acquired.
To confirm which Vector system is cleared for military use, check the Defense Innovation Unit's Blue UAS list, the public record of approved small unmanned aircraft systems. The Defense News report refers to it as the Blue List.
For any contract that follows the partnership, search the DoD's daily contract announcements and USAspending.gov by recipient name. Neither Vector nor Nammo disclosed a dollar value in October 2026.
For Nammo's side of the partnership, including its product range from small-arms ammunition to tank rounds and its rocket motor work, the primary source is Nammo's corporate site.

One failure mode is worth naming explicitly: a company announcement describing a "selection", "award", or "partnership" is not the same as obligated money, and the two are easy to conflate because they use the same vocabulary. Check the official record before treating either as revenue. Our full approach is documented on the methodology page.

Vector FAQ

What does Vector do?

Vector Builds small unmanned aircraft for U.S.

Is Vector publicly traded?

Vector is not publicly traded, so there is no ticker to buy. Any claim otherwise should be verified against SEC EDGAR before it is believed.

What should investors watch with Vector?

Whether the expanded Vector and Nammo agreement produces a named DoD contract award with a disclosed value. The October 2026 announcement at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) annual meeting carried none.

Where can I research Vector directly?

Go to the primary sources: Nammo (partner company site), Defense News — original report. Avoid aggregator summaries when the filing itself is available.