Overview
- Firestorm Labs raised $82 million in a Series B led by Washington Harbour Partners, bringing total funding to $153 million with backers including NEA, In-Q-Tel, Lockheed Martin Ventures, and Booz Allen Ventures.
- The company’s xCell is a shipping-container factory using HP industrial 3D printers under a five-year global exclusive that can print drone airframes in under a day, and the Army has used it to make Bradley Fighting Vehicle parts on-site.
- Two xCell units are deployed in the U.S. with the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, New York, and with Air Force Special Operations Command in Florida, and the company says the platform is operational in the Indo-Pacific.
- The Air Force contract tied to xCell has a $100 million ceiling, with about $27 million obligated so far.
- Firestorm says its drones can be configured for surveillance, electronic warfare, or lethal missions, and it delivers all platforms to uniformed Department of Defense commands for use under military doctrine.