Autonomy Runway

FOR THE DRONE & ROBOTICS INDUSTRY

Connecting autonomous technology companies and manufacturers with funding, buyers, partners, government agencies, and jobs.

Find opportunities, connect with partners, and post or find requests on the Board. Prepare the documents buyers and lenders need, check the drone parts for compliance, keep up with new laws and regulations, discover industry events, and post or find the jobs.

For the whole drone business.

  • Drone & robotics makers
  • Parts & payload suppliers
  • Operators & service companies
  • Startups & growing teams
  • Companies: Prepare bid response documents. Check which rules apply to your drones and parts, record compliance details and supporting evidence, and calculate domestic content from component origins and costs. Connect with manufacturers, suppliers, production partners, buyers, lenders and funding programs through the network and Opportunity Match. Post or find jobs.
  • Startups: Prepare documents: business plans, pitch decks, financial projections, capability statements, bid checklists and response drafts, and financing documents. Connect with suppliers, production partners, buyers and funding providers through the network and Opportunity Match. Review compliance requirements for your drone parts. Document Check: an automated review of your document packages for missing documents, inconsistent data and gaps to fix.
  • Buyers & government agencies: find suppliers for your mission or project and assess their capability and government readiness. Review product specifications, U.S. production, production capacity, past performance and compliance evidence. Use Opportunity Match for a researched supplier fit against your requirements. Post your requests.
  • Partners: Manufacturers, resellers, lenders, investors, lawyers, insurers, testing labs and other industry providers - connect with drone and robotics companies that need your products, services or funding. Use Opportunity Match to research potential clients and understand how your offer fits their needs.
  • Individuals: looking for a job, offering your services, or needing drone work done. Use the Board to post or find requests, services, or jobs.

Tell us what you’re looking for. We’ll match you with the right contracts, grants, buyers, and partners.

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YOUR COMPANY. READY FOR THE NEXT OPPORTUNITY.

Find the work.
Prepare to go after it.

From the parts you build to the proposal you send, Autonomy Runway helps you move the business forward.

01PARTS & SUPPLY CHAIN

Supply Chain Check

Put each drone part beside the federal drone rules. View your report, download it in Word or PDF, and find replacement suppliers and ask for their quotes.

For complete systems, payloads and component makers.

Explore Supply Chain Check
02BID PREPARATION

Turn a solicitation into a plan.

Paste or upload a solicitation. The Bid response kit extracts requirements into a checklist and drafts response sections from your own company file.

See what to address before you build the response.

See the Bid response kit
03GOVERNMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Start the morning with new leads.

See new government opportunities every morning on the Board. With Pro, get daily solicitation matches based on your company profile, with an email of the ones that fit.

Find the next opportunity for your products and capabilities.

See government opportunities
04FINANCING & DOCUMENTS

Prepare your financial documents.

Build your business plan, financial projections, pitch deck and capability statement from your company facts. Explore lenders, investors and funding programs for your next stage.

Add a paid Document Check to review gaps before you send.

Explore the Company Toolkit

Foreign technology.
American production.

Find American partners for joint ventures, technology licensing and U.S. assembly.

Joint ventures

Find American partners for joint ventures.

Technology licensing

Connect for technology licensing opportunities.

U.S. assembly

Explore partners for U.S. assembly.

Explore U.S. market entry

For eligible international companies.

See the U.S. Entry Package
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Autonomy Runway helps international drone and robotics companies find American partners to enter the U.S. market through joint ventures, technology licensing, and U.S. assembly. A manufacturer in Europe, Asia, Latin America or any other country the platform accepts shares what it needs.

U.S. companies with the production capacity, certifications, and facilities to help respond. These partnerships create a path to American production and help companies meet the requirements to sell to U.S. government buyers.

For international companies

Showcase your technology, share what you need, and connect with U.S. manufacturers, buyers, lenders, and investors through one verified profile.

For U.S. manufacturers

Find proven designs and battlefield-tested systems to manufacture in the United States. Explore opportunities by technology, readiness, and production volume.

For government buyers

Find companies building in the United States. See their production partners and assess their progress toward meeting government procurement requirements.

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Resources

Find guidance for your next business decision.

All resources
The resources, by topic

Financing

Loans for working capital, equipment, facilities and contract ramp-up.

  • SBA 7(a) and 504 loansGovernment-guaranteed loans made through banks and CDCs. Working capital, equipment, real estate.
  • SBA MicroloansUp to $50,000 through nonprofit lenders, useful for first equipment and inventory.

Investing

Equity and growth capital for companies past the prototype stage.

  • SBIC directorySBA-licensed private investment funds that back small businesses with debt and equity.
  • AFWERX / AFVenturesAir Force innovation arm that funds and buys from small companies.

Research and development funding

Non-dilutive federal money for R&D, in phases.

  • SBIR / STTR (sbir.gov)America's Seed Fund. Open topics from DoD, DHS, NASA, USDA, DOE, NSF and more.
  • NASA SBIRAeronautics, autonomy and sensing topics each cycle.

Selling to government

Registrations, certifications and the people who help for free.

SERVICE JOBS

Need a drone pilot or specialist?

Government agencies, companies and individuals can post jobs for rescue support, agricultural spraying, surveillance, construction, deliveries and more. Tell operators what drone, equipment and skills you need, and receive responses with their credentials, price and availability.

A service job is a request for work to be done, not a purchase. A government agency, a company or a person posts the job: a roof inspection, construction progress photos, crop spraying, real estate photos and video, a search over a flooded area, a delivery. Drone operators with the right aircraft, equipment and credentials respond, and the poster compares them and chooses whom to talk to.

ExampleInspection (roof, solar, tower, bridge, utility)

Thermal roof inspection of two warehouses in Roseville, CA

Posted by
A company in Roseville, CA
Place
Roseville, CA
Date
Flexible
Budget
$1,200 to $1,800
Requirements
FAA Part 107 certificate · Insurance · Specific equipment: thermal camera

Operators respond with their credentials, price and availability. The poster compares the responses and chooses whom to talk to.

PARTNER MATCH

Opportunity Match finds your opportunity.

Tell Opportunity Match what you need: a factory, parts, buyers, financing, services or a partner. It picks your best match among the organizations on Autonomy Runway by capability, location and your requirements. It researches that match on the web: its page, its website and public records. Then it writes your report: why it fits, the opportunity for both sides, what to watch for, and how to open the conversation, and helps to get the deal.

Manufacturing · Suppliers · Buyers · Financing · Services · Partners

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Example report

Your request
A U.S. factory to build 500 carbon fiber airframes a year.
Match summary
A composites manufacturer in Ohio: carbon fiber layup and autoclave cure at the size of your airframe, an aerospace quality system, and open capacity next year.
Why this match
Its page lists composite airframes and AS9100, its website shows autoclaves of the right size, and a trade story names a drone customer.
The opportunity for you
One supplier for the whole airframe instead of three, and U.S. production for government buyers.
The opportunity for them
A steady run of 500 units a year in a growing market, from a company with orders in hand.
Watch-outs
Its capacity is shared with an automotive customer through next year. Confirm lead times and tooling cost before you commit.
How to open the conversation
A draft opening message in the voice of your company, which you can edit, and three questions to ask. One tap under the report requests an introduction.
Next steps
Request the introduction, ask for a quote on tooling and lead time, and visit the plant before you commit.
Sources
Its page on Autonomy Runway, its website and two public records, each dated.
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Drone services for every industry

Autonomy Runway members include drone service companies that work for other businesses. Find them by the industry they serve and the job you need done, from tank inspections at a refinery to progress tracking on a construction site.

Need drone work done?

Post a service job on the Board. Drone service companies that work in your industry see it in their open requests, and you choose who to talk to.

Post a service job

Run a drone service company?

List the industries you serve and the work you do. Companies that need drone services find you by industry, and Opportunity Match brings you the requests that fit.

List your services

New Laws and Regulations

Laws, rules and programs, with practical next steps.

All updates (40)
PolicyJune 30, 2027

Section 805: goods and services from 1260H-listed companies

From June 30, 2027, Section 805 of the FY2024 NDAA extends to the Department of War buying goods or services that include goods or services from 1260H-listed entities or entities they control, including through third parties. The prohibition has an exception for components supplied as part of an end item or another component.

Events

The industry and defense calendar.

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BUILD IT. CONNECT. GO AFTER THE WORK.

Give your drone business
its next opening.

Products, parts, services and the partners to take them further.