Ground-up sUAS design and build
Airframe design and structural fabrication, propulsion and power integration, flight-controller and avionics integration, harness build, payload mounting, final assembly, bench and flight test.
Capability statement
Unmanned aircraft systems — design, manufacture, test & sustainment
LeadTech Inc is an emerging supplier to the defense industrial base. This page is the authoritative version of our capability statement; where a printed copy differs, this page governs.
Company data
Identifiers & codes
- Legal name
- LeadTech Inc.
- CAGE Code
- 24Q16
- UEI
- Y8J2ASGYWVP9
- Business size
- Small business under the SBA size standard for NAICS 336411 (1,500 employees). Size is stated per NAICS code, not as a blanket representation.
- Ownership
- 100% U.S. owned. Single U.S. beneficial owner; wholly owned U.S. corporate structure. No foreign ownership, control, or influence.
- Incorporated
- State of Michigan, 2023
- Headquarters
- 850 Stephenson Highway, Suite 115, Troy, MI 48083
- Facility
- 10,000 sq ft design, fabrication, assembly and test facility planned for Troy, Michigan — site selection underway
- Point of contact
- Michael Seifert, President — Email us
NAICS
| Code | Description |
|---|---|
| 336411 | Primary. Aircraft Manufacturing — complete unmanned aerial vehicles and UAS platforms |
| 336413 | Other Aircraft Parts & Auxiliary Equipment |
| 336412 | Aircraft Engine & Engine Parts |
| 334511 | Search, Detection, Navigation & Aeronautical Instruments |
| 334290 | Other Communications Equipment |
| 332710 | Machine Shops |
| 541330 | Engineering Services |
| 541715 | R&D in Physical & Engineering Sciences |
| 811219 | Electronic & Precision Equipment Repair |
PSC / FSC
| Code | Description |
|---|---|
| 1550 | Unmanned Aircraft |
| 1560 | Airframe Structural Components |
| 1610 | Aircraft Propellers & Components |
| AC2x | R&D Defense Systems |
| J015 | Maintenance & Repair, Aircraft Equipment |
Core capabilities
What we do
Drone parts and subassemblies
Airframes, arms and booms, motor mounts, landing gear, payload and gimbal brackets, electronics housings, battery trays, fixtures and tooling — machined, printed, and cut from in-house carbon fibre plate.
Prototype to production engineering
CAD modeling, design-for-manufacture review, rapid iteration, first-article build, tooling design, and technical data package development.
Batch production and surge
Low-rate initial production through repeat lots, with configuration control maintained across batches.
Sustainment
Spares, field-replaceable modules, repair kits, depot-level rebuild, and operator/maintainer documentation.
Autonomy & software
Onboard inference, GPS-denied navigation, and open interfaces that accept government-furnished autonomy and payload software — in development.
Manufacturing & equipment
How it gets built
Facility in development. A 10,000 sq ft facility in Troy,
Michigan is planned to consolidate design, fabrication, assembly and test.
Site selection is underway — the plant is not yet stood up, and
the equipment set below describes the configuration being built to, not an
installed line available today.
- CNC machining — precision aluminum and engineering-polymer structural parts, mounts, fixtures, and production tooling.
- Industrial additive manufacturing — FDM in carbon-fiber-reinforced and high-temperature polymers (PA-CF, PETG, ASA) for airframes, housings, and jigs.
- In-house carbon fibre plate fabrication — layup, press and cure of CFRP plate stock, CNC-cut to finished airframe plates, arms and brackets. Ply schedule and thickness set to the design rather than to catalogue stock. Trimming and bonding in house.
- Electro-mechanical integration bench — harness fabrication, soldering and rework, continuity and insulation verification, power-system assembly.
- Serialized assembly cells — work instructions and build travelers per unit, with lot and revision control.
Designed production capacity
Rate plan
Scaled by adding assembly cells, not by re-tooling. Every figure below is a designed rate derived from cell layout and cycle-time modelling, stated per configuration, and offered for verification by pre-award survey or facility visit.
| Phase | Rate | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Phase 1 — current design | 1,000 / month | Installed cell set, one shift, per configuration |
| Phase 2 — expansion | 2,500 / month | Second shift plus added assembly cells; contingent on order volume |
| Phase 3 — expansion | 5,000 / month | Facility expansion and contract-funded tooling; contingent on order volume |
Read this with the table. LeadTech has not yet produced units at
any rate, and these are not demonstrated figures. Phase 1 describes a designed
line; Phases 2 and 3 are expansion paths contingent on order volume, component
lead times, and contract-funded tooling. A dated basis-of-estimate covering cell
count, takt time, staffing and yield is available to a contracting officer on
request.
Quality, test & traceability
How it gets verified
- Documented quality system built on AS9100D / ISO 9001 principles — controlled procedures, revision control, internal audit, corrective and preventive action.
- First article inspection on the AS9102 model; in-process inspection at defined gates; dimensional verification against released drawings.
- 100% acceptance test of every delivered unit to a written ATP — power-up, control and motor function, thrust and vibration check, endurance and range verification — with a signed data record shipped per serial number.
- Full traceability — serialized units, lot control on critical components, retained supplier certificates of conformance, component-level country-of-origin records.
- Nonconformance tagging and segregation, root-cause analysis, and government-witnessed inspection on request.
Registrations & certifications
Current status, stated plainly
Certification language on this page is deliberately precise. Where LeadTech does not hold a certification, this page says so.
| Item | Status |
|---|---|
| CAGE Code | 24Q16 — active |
| UEI / SAM.gov | Y8J2ASGYWVP9 — registered |
| Quality system | Documented and operated to AS9100D / ISO 9001 principles. LeadTech is not AS9100D certified. Third-party registration is planned. |
| Cybersecurity | CMMC Level 1 (Self) assessment and SPRS affirmation planned; DFARS 252.204-7012 safeguards in place before any handling of Controlled Unclassified Information. LeadTech does not currently hold a CMMC certification or affirmation at any level. |
| Blue UAS | Planned via the Green UAS → Blue UAS Cleared listing path. No LeadTech product currently appears on the Blue UAS Cleared List administered by DCMA. |
| Export / ITAR | Export compliance program in development for USML and EAR-controlled articles and technical data. Commodity jurisdiction determination in progress. |
| Supply chain | Designed and sourced to exclude covered foreign entity content per FY2020 NDAA § 848, FY2023 NDAA § 817, and the American Security Drone Act (FY2024 NDAA §§ 1821–1826). Because platforms are in development, no configuration has completed a final compliance attestation. |
| Past performance | None in unmanned systems. LeadTech holds no prior prime or subcontract past performance in this domain. |
Annex A. Full certification and registration status is maintained in
Annex A to the capability statement, available on request.
What we offer in lieu of past performance. A pre-award facility
survey, a prototype demonstration, a first-article submission, and a sample build
against government-furnished requirements. A signed supply-chain attestation and
BOM-level country-of-origin record will be furnished with first-article delivery
and with each production lot.
Differentiators
Why an emerging supplier is worth a look
Designed and engineered in Michigan
Designed and engineered in Troy, Michigan, with U.S. final assembly planned and sourcing designed to exclude covered foreign entity content across flight controllers, radios, cameras and gimbals, data links, ground control, and data storage.
No foreign ownership, control, or influence
A single U.S. beneficial owner and a wholly owned U.S. corporate structure — a clean ownership chain for supply-chain and cybersecurity review.
Three hours from the test range
Troy sits roughly three hours from Camp Grayling and the National All-Domain Warfighting Center — designated in February 2026 as a National Range for Deep Uncrewed Aerial Systems Training — and inside Michigan’s existing automotive electronics, tooling and precision machining base.
Vertically integrated and self-funded
Backed by an affiliated holding company under common ownership, with its own working capital and in-house back office, with carbon fibre plate fabrication planned in house. No outside landlord, investor, or financing dependency on delivery.
Building the team now
An early-stage company recruiting engineers, UAS operators and veterans whose field experience will shape airframe, handling and field-maintainability decisions. Join us.
Field-interchangeable by design
Designed around line-replaceable modules — arms, motors, propellers, batteries, sensor and payload modules — that a unit swaps with common tools, with flight electronics and ground control common across the family.
Small-batch agility
Configuration changes between lots without prime-contractor retooling cycles. Additive and subtractive manufacturing under one roof shortens design-to-part time to days.
Founder-led decision authority
Quotes and engineering changes are approved same-day by the principal.
Relevant experience
The record we can actually point at
LeadTech does not claim prior past performance in unmanned systems. What it offers instead is a founder who has done the technical work first-hand, backed by more than twenty years of building and running companies.
Drones, electronics, fabrication and autonomy
- Flight operations — hands-on experience operating small unmanned aircraft.
- Electronics — drone electrical systems taken down to the component level, then soldered and rebuilt by hand.
- Fabrication — carbon-fibre parts fabricated by hand, direct experience with CNC machines and 3D printers, and a working understanding of the manufacturing processes behind them.
- Autonomy R&D — research and development on NVIDIA Jetson Nano and Jetson Orin, including flight software for GPS-denied navigation and autonomous flight.
- Sensors and training — thermal, infrared and visible-light cameras integrated and evaluated, and the onboard software trained on the imagery they produce.
Building and running companies
- Building and leading businesses since 2002 — construction, finance and technology companies under common ownership.
- 70+ full-cycle construction and renovation projects since 2020 — each managed against a fixed budget and schedule, with subcontractor control, materials procurement and third-party inspection.
- Applied AI and software — production web platforms, customer portals and internal systems built in house using AI-assisted development.
- In-house back office — accounting, contracts and records handled in house, so a CDRL is a scheduling task rather than an outsourcing one.
How the business record builds the company
Building a drone is one skill. Building a company that delivers drones on time, on budget and to specification is another — and more than twenty years of running businesses is daily practice in the second. That discipline carries straight across:
- Budgets — estimating and holding a fixed budget becomes unit-cost control, with airframes priced low enough to expend.
- Schedules — sequencing trades against a deadline becomes lot planning and on-time delivery.
- Suppliers — qualifying and managing subcontractors becomes a controlled supply chain, with country-of-origin records for critical components.
- Inspection — passing third-party inspection becomes a documented quality system, first-article inspection and complete delivery data.
- People — hiring and leading teams across several companies is how the engineering and operations team is being built now. See who we are looking for.
- Capital — self-funding through an affiliated holding company means no outside investor or financing gate on delivery.
The result is a company where the person who approves a design has built and flown the hardware, and has spent two decades making budgets, schedules and suppliers hold.
Alignment with DoD priorities
Built for what the Department has put at the centre of small-UAS acquisition
Domestic capacity that can surge. Low-cost attritable airframes in repeatable lots. A supply chain free of covered foreign entity content. Open architecture that accepts government-furnished payloads, radios, and autonomy software. Cybersecure data handling. A cost structure that keeps unit price low. We conform to the specification, the CDRLs, and the schedule as written — and document it.