Vector Secures $20 Million Loan to Scale Domestic Manufacturing and Achieve American Drone Dominance

BLUFFDALE, UT – Vector, a modern defense-as-a-service company founded by warfighters, today announced that it has secured a $20 million loan from J.P. Morgan to scale its domestic manufacturing capabilities in support of realizing American drone dominance.

This comes on the heels of Vector’s successful Series A funding round, which closed in September 2025, and raised $61 million from investors led by Pelion Venture Partners, Harpoon Ventures, Point72 Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Run Ventures, Dauntless Ventures, GSB Backers, Alumni Ventures, Kickstart Fund, Shield Capital, R7, Cambria Group, and Stony Lonesome Group.

With this recent loan agreement, Vector will scale its U.S. manufacturing capacity at the company’s Utah factory, reinforce its domestic supply chains, and expand its inventory purchases. These efforts will help meet the growing demand from military and law enforcement partners for cutting-edge American small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) and advanced defense technologies.

“The debt we’ve secured from J.P. Morgan is a significant step toward realizing our shared vision with the Department of War to achieve American drone dominance,” said Andy Yakulis, CEO and Co-Founder of Vector. “Restoring advanced manufacturing capabilities and reshoring critical supply chains are key to making our national security more resilient. Vector is moving swiftly on that imperative by building the manufacturing capacity America needs to prevail in an era defined by unmanned systems.”

Vector aims to meet the urgent need for low-cost, supply-chain secure sUAS manufacturing at scale by supplying its military partners with attritable one-way systems that are required by modern combat. Designed and manufactured in the United States, Vector’s platforms are produced with a focus on compliant supply chains, consistent assembly, and production models built to transition prototypes to fielded capability. Combining scalable production with operator-driven design and integrated lethality, Vector is rebuilding the industrial capacity necessary to support the future of drone-based warfare.