When Soren Monroe-Anderson launched Neros Technologies in 2023, small drones weren't a priority for the Pentagon. A year later, his startup is delivering 1,000 first-person view drones per month to Ukraine under a six-month contract announced in February. Neros has also outlined a long-term plan to scale production to 1 million annually.
Determined to ground their product in real-world needs, CEO Monroe-Anderson and his team traveled to Ukraine early on to study how small, low-cost attack drones were being used in combat. What they observed on the front lines helped define the company's focus on battlefield relevance, production scalability, and rapid design iteration, Defense News reports.
