{"id":307109,"date":"2026-05-24T16:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/307109\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T16:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:31:09","slug":"defense-sector-drone-producer-starts-texas-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/307109\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense sector drone producer starts Texas operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Founded in 2010, EagleNXT started in Wichita, Kansas,\u00a0as AgEagle Aerial Systems. It manufactures drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles for multiple industries, including defense and agriculture. Wichita,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wichita.edu\/admissions\/undergraduate\/blog\/2024\/9_4_Wichita_Employers.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">also the home<\/a> of Textron Aviation and Spirit AeroSystems, is known as the Air Capital of the World, but Texas has been tempting technology companies for years now.<\/p>\n<p>EagleNXT announced its move to Texas in January.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Relocating our headquarters to Allen, Texas, is a strategic decision to harness the exceptional talent and abundant opportunities available in this economically vibrant part of the country,&#8221; said EagleNXT CEO Bill Irby <a href=\"https:\/\/eaglenxt.com\/eaglenxt-establishing-u-s-drone-manufacturing-center-and-consolidating-operations-in-texas\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">in the January announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In that announcement, EagleNXT noted Allen would serve as &#8220;the central hub&#8221; for the company, complementing a second facility in Switzerland. The company planned to open the facility in April. In its first-quarter update to shareholders on May 15,\u00a0EagleNXT revealed the Allen facility was now open and would be fully operational by the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>The Allen facility will be home to, among other things, the production of ThirdEye USA counter-drone systems, which\u00a0track unmanned crafts.\u00a0ThirdEye is out of Israel; EagleNXT announced in April a $10 million investment into ThirdEye, which handed EagleNXT a 51 percent controlling interest in the company. One month before that, EagleNXT struck a deal with Israeli loitering munitions developer Aerodome Group, Ltd. Loitering munitions are self-destructing drones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Founded in 2010, EagleNXT started in Wichita, Kansas,\u00a0as AgEagle Aerial Systems. It manufactures drones and other unmanned aerial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1836,1704,85744,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-307109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-chronnews","tag-chronstaff","tag-chrontexas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}