Wake Energy

Wake Energy is a Los Angeles-based defense and advanced manufacturing company founded in 2025, specializing in high-volume, high-performance lithium-ion battery packs for drones, unmanned aerial systems (UAS), robotics, and micromobility applications. The company engineers and assembles its products entirely in the United States using Taiwanese cells (Molicel P50B/P45B), and is fully NDAA compliant and UN 38.3 certified - making it a critical domestic alternative to foreign-sourced battery systems in the rapidly growing defense drone sector. Its flagship product, the THOR 6030, is a 6S3P lithium-ion pack delivering ~324 Wh at 21.6V nominal voltage, designed for demanding FPV and military-grade applications. Manufacturing precision is achieved through thick nickel-plated copper busbars, CNC micro TIG welding, and rigorous pull-testing of every electrode coupon to ensure structural integrity and repeatability.

Beyond batteries, Wake Energy is expanding into US-made fiber optic spools for attritable UAS platforms - an area with acute supply gaps in the domestic market. The company identified that no American supplier was offering affordable, at-scale fiber spools for drone-fiber-guided applications (a technology that won the Army's Drone Dominance Gauntlet competition). Wake Energy now offers 1-25km NDAA-compliant fiber spools with compatible media converters, positioning itself as a one-stop domestic power and communications hardware supplier for military drone programs. The company has already staged backup battery packs at Fort Benning for competition logistics support and counts defense primes and UAS manufacturers among its customers.

Wake Energy is strategically significant to the US energy and defense supply chain at a moment when the Pentagon is urgently seeking to reduce dependence on Chinese-manufactured drone components. By building a factory capable of producing thousands of battery packs and expanding into fiber spools - both at competitive prices - Wake Energy represents the kind of vertically integrated, domestic-first manufacturer that the DoD and DIU have prioritized. Its tight turnaround times, compliance certifications, and willingness to serve custom configurations for classified mission profiles fill a critical gap in the US drone industrial base.