Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind

Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind profile

By Jonathan Teplitsky · reviewed against primary sources · updated September 8, 2026.

Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind surfaced in defense tracking feeds connected to a $19 million Marine Corps award for Tempest counter-drone vehicles, a system manufactured by Vertex Modernization and Sustainment under V2X.

What Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind does

Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind Fulfills federal procurement orders under statutory supply programs, though public tracking records sometimes conflate standard military equipment supply with specialized vehicle integration handled by prime contractors. Combines fixed-price product delivery with federal distribution agreements across government agencies. Relies on structured defense contract vehicles where task orders define delivery schedules, equipment specifications, and support services.

The product lines that define the company for research purposes:

Tempest Counter-Drone Vehicle
Combat-Proven Anti-Drone Buggies

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.

Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind 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 Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind, 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.

OrderSep 8, 2026$19M
U.S. Marine Corps Orders 10 Tempest Counter-Drone Vehicles in $19 Million Award
According to a reported Pentagon announcement, the U.S. Marine Corps awarded Vertex Modernization and Sustainment, an operating unit of V2X, an IDIQ contract valued at roughly $19 million for 10 Tempest counter-UAS vehicles, software, spare parts, and support running through August 2027. Because the award combines firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee, and cost provisions under an IDIQ vehicle, researchers should cross-reference primary Department of Defense contract digests and SEC filings to confirm initial obligated funding versus potential ceiling values.
Counter-drone systems — original report

Is Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind going public?

Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind is a private non-profit entity with no public stock listing or ticker symbol. Investors researching the Tempest counter-drone buggy should track public prime contractor V2X (NYSE: VVX), which operates Vertex Modernization and Sustainment.

Where Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind sits in the value chain

Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind is an enabler: it supplies inputs to the companies that build complete systems, so its demand is spread across many platforms instead of concentrated in any single program.

Its disclosed activity spans ground robotics, counter-UAS. 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.

Contract attribution clarity across Department of Defense (DoD) notices to distinguish supply aggregators from system integrators like Vertex Modernization and Sustainment.
Marine Corps task order execution under the $19 million indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract running through August 2027.
Operational reliance on commercial off-the-shelf vehicle platforms, such as the Can-Am Maverick X3, adapted for expeditionary counter-drone roles.
Interception metrics and munitions resupply for AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire missiles engaging Class 2 and Class 3 unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).

How to research Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind

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.

Verify prime contractor assignment and funding allocations in the official Department of Defense (DoD) Contracts announcement from August 11, 2026.
Review Tempest platform specifications and Ukrainian combat deployment data published by Inside Unmanned Systems.
Track parent company financials and defense sustainment revenue on Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) EDGAR filings for V2X.
Inspect federal contract history and organizational classifications on USAspending.gov.

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.

Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind FAQ

What does Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind do?

Is Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind publicly traded?

Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind 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 Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind?

Contract attribution clarity across Department of Defense (DoD) notices to distinguish supply aggregators from system integrators like Vertex Modernization and Sustainment.

Where can I research Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind directly?

Go to the primary sources: Counter-drone systems — original report. Avoid aggregator summaries when the filing itself is available.