A joint partnership between the Department of Defense, Oklahoma's research universities, and the companies building the next generation of autonomous air power. Modeled after JPL. Focused exclusively on unmanned systems for national security.
Structured as a Federally Funded Research and Development Center, managed jointly by OU and OSU. The same model that gave us JPL, Lincoln Lab, and Sandia. Long-term government contracts. University talent pipelines. Institutional stability.
No commercial drone delivery. No agricultural surveying. Every program, every dollar, every flight hour serves one mission: unmanned aerospace superiority for U.S. national defense. Focus is the multiplier.
Kratos, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Atomics, and emerging defense firms collaborate on-site. Shared test infrastructure. Joint development programs. The gap between lab and production line collapses to zero.
The world's most battle-tested drone operators and manufacturers as formal partners. Combat-proven tactics, rapid iteration cycles, and manufacturing scale that the U.S. defense sector needs but doesn't have domestically.
One of only 14 FAA-licensed spaceports in the United States. One of North America's longest runways. Purpose-built for military training, UAS testing, and advanced air mobility operations. Automated detect-and-avoid systems deployed.
Dedicated ground-level field testing facility for unmanned systems operations. Real-terrain environments for drone deployment, recovery operations, field maintenance protocols, and tactical scenario simulation under controlled conditions.
Ukraine has become the world's leading innovator in military drone warfare. Their manufacturers plan to produce over 3 million FPV combat drones in 2026 alone. The U.S. built 300,000 in all of 2025.
SkyForge Labs formalizes this partnership on American soil. Ukrainian drone expertise, manufacturing velocity, and combat-tested iteration cycles integrated directly into a U.S. national defense laboratory. No other institution offers this.
The U.S. and Ukraine have already drafted a memorandum outlining defense cooperation on drone production and military technology. SkyForge Labs is the institutional home for that collaboration.
SkyForge Labs exists because unmanned aerospace superiority will define the next era of national defense, and the nation that builds the lab builds the future. Oklahoma has the ecosystem. The universities have the talent. The partners have the technology. The mission is clear.