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May 7, 2026 12:00 PM

Firestorm Labs Secures $30M APFIT Award to Scale Expeditionary Manufacturing and Tempest UAS production for the Indo-Pacific

SAN DIEGO, May 07, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Firestorm Labs today announced it has been selected for an award of up to $30 million through the Department of War's Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies (APFIT) program. The award will fund expanded deployment of the xCell containerized manufacturing platform and increased production and sustainment of the Tempest family of uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) in support of operational units in the Indo-Pacific.

U.S. and allied forces operating across distributed, contested environments currently depend on extended logistics networks that are vulnerable to disruption, a critical gap as the Department of War prioritizes Contested Logistics as one of six Critical Technology Areas identified by the Office of the Under Secretary of ...