Build NDAA-Grade Drone Hardware — Without Slowing Down
On January 1, 2027, the exemption keeping foreign-made drones and critical components off the FCC Covered List expires — and the Blue UAS carve-out goes with it.
Compliance isn’t a tax. Solved at the schematic instead of after first build, it’s how you ship NDAA-grade hardware faster than the teams still pretending the deadline isn’t coming. You bring the design — Amtech builds it, and makes sure it’s NDAA-compliant when it leaves the line.
The Drone Compliance Cliff Is Real
After January 1, 2027, any flight controller, GNSS receiver, RF data link, or carrier board that traces back to a covered nation — China first among them — is locked out of defense, federal, and federally-funded buyers. Section 848 and the American Security Drone Act already pulled that trigger government-wide in December 2025.
The Systems We've Built to Support You
We didn’t bolt compliance on as a checkbox. We built the tooling, the sourcing workflow, and the process around it — so getting your design to NDAA-grade is routine, not a fire drill.
BOMsense
Upload your BOM and it flags country-of-origin, supply-chain, tariff, and sole-source risk line by line — so you catch covered-nation parts at the schematic, while they’re still cheap to swap.
Run your BOM →RapidRFQ
Instant online quoting on your assembly — upload, get real pricing back fast, re-quote on every spin. A compliant alternate part is never more than a re-quote away.
Get a quote →RapidNPI
It’s a land grab. We compress the path from prototype to production so you ship NDAA-grade hardware first — and lock in the programs and Blue UAS positions before the field fills up.
Start your NPI →Vapor Phase + AI
A wide vapor-phase process window solders complex, high-reliability boards cleanly the first time — no custom profile — with AI inspection in-line. Low-void joints that survive vibration, thermal cycling, and RF-dense flight.
See our process →Compliance is a front-end engineering and supply-chain problem — not a tax. Solve it where the board is designed, and you ship NDAA-grade hardware faster than the field.
The Window Is Open Right Now
The exemption closes January 1, 2027. The teams that win the next decade of US drone hardware are getting compliant and getting to market at the same time — not trading one for the other.
Amtech is a US contract manufacturer built for exactly this: NDAA-grade builds of your design, ISO 9001 / 13485 quality, IPC-A-610 workmanship, and front-end engineering that designs the risk out before it reaches the line.
Our NDAA Compliance Process
We build to print — and we make sure it ships NDAA-compliant. Bring us your design package; we screen it, source it clean, build it to defense-grade workmanship, and hand it back with the paperwork that proves it.
Design-Stage Risk Review
Preferred entry pointThe earliest and cheapest place to engineer compliance in. Front-end engineering flags covered components — Section 848 and the American Security Drone Act — before the print is locked, while they are still easy to swap. This is our preferred starting point; when a program reaches us after the design is frozen, we catch the same risk at BOM intake instead.
BOM Intake & Screening
Every line item runs through BOMsense for country-of-origin, covered-nation, sole-source, and tariff exposure — before we touch the board. The safety net that catches anything a frozen design carried in.
Compliant Sourcing & Traceability
We source verified alternates, capture country-of-origin documentation on every part, and assemble the traceability file your defense, federal, and federally-funded buyers will ask for.
Build & In-Line AI Inspection
Vapor-phase assembly with in-line AI inspection — low-void joints that survive vibration, thermal cycling, and RF-dense flight. Built to IPC-A-610, ISO 9001 / 13485.
Compliance-Ready Delivery
Your hardware ships with the documentation package that proves NDAA-grade compliance — ready to drop straight into a Blue UAS submission or a federal program file.