DepChain maps where every part in your drone comes from and flags banned, sanctioned, or adversarial-nation components — with auditable evidence and replacement options.
| Component | Manufacturer | Origin | FY2020 NDAA §848 | Risk |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brushless DC Motor | T-Motor | CN | FAIL | Critical |
| Li-Ion Battery Pack | Dongguan Poweramp | CN | FAIL | Critical |
| Flight Controller | Pixhawk (Holybro) | US | PASS | Low |
| ESC Module | Hobbywing | CN | REVIEW | High |
When China sanctioned Skydio in October 2024, America’s largest drone maker couldn’t get batteries for months — because nobody could see the dependency until it broke. The Drone Dominance Program is about to scale production to 200,000 drones with no tooling to verify supply chains. DepChain changes that.
Defense contractors must verify supply chain compliance by these dates — the tools don’t exist yet.
Drop in a CSV or XLSX bill of materials. We handle messy column names, inconsistent manufacturer formatting, and incomplete data.
We match every manufacturer against our supplier database, run compliance checks across 5 federal regimes, and score risk per component.
Get an auditable compliance report with flagged items, confidence scores, country-of-origin evidence, and replacement options. Export as PDF.
From BOM upload to fleet-wide risk visibility in minutes, not months.
Based on real regulatory events and documented supply chain disruptions.
Detailed security documentation available under NDA for design partners. View security overview →
Our founding team brings direct experience from Fortune 500 consumer electronics manufacturing and leading test & measurement firms, with deep expertise in supplier development, component qualification, and production-scale quality systems.
We’ve personally experienced the pain of managing 500-line BOMs against quarterly-changing regulatory lists. DepChain exists because spreadsheets can’t keep up with NDAA, ASDA, and FCC enforcement deadlines.
Robotics and manufacturing engineer. Built DepChain because I watched supply chain opacity break production schedules — and realized nobody had tooling to fix it for defense drones.
The $17.5B defense drone market has no compliance tooling. Every contractor is running spreadsheets against regulations that change quarterly. DepChain replaces that.
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