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Purple Rhombus

Purple Rhombus designs and manufactures industrial-scale fixed-wing unmanned aircraft systems in Texas.

Austin, TX, US🇺🇸
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2024
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purple-rhombus.com·22 items across 16 mapped pages · Crawled Oct 2, 2026·

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Product

5 pages
  1. Build/build

    We treat production economics as a first-order requirement.

  2. D2p2/d2p2

    (Austin, Texas) – Purple Rhombus LLC announces it has been selected by AFWERX for a Direct-to-Phase II SBIR in the amount of $1.25m focused on the development of affordable unmanned aircraft, addressing the most pressing challenges in the Department of the Air Force (DAF). The Air Force Research Laboratory and AFWERX have partnered to streamline the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) process by accelerating the small business experience throug

  3. Grackle/grackle

    The Grackle™ UAS is engineered for mass production today using the existing U.S. industrial base. learn more here.

  4. P700/p700

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  1. Grackle™ Added to Blue UAS List/news/purple-rhombus-blue-uas

    Low-cost, high-scale NDAA-compliant Group 2 UAS now available for direct procurement TEXAS (June 1, 2026)  – Purple Rhombus’ Grackle™ attritable unmanned aerial system (UAS) has been added to the Defense Contract Management Agency’s (DCMA) Blue UAS Cleared List, expanding the pl

  2. News/news
  3. Purple Rhombus and Hughes Bros. Aircrafters Enter Manufacturing Agreement to Scale Drone Production/news/hughes-bros

    The agreement combines Purple Rhombus’ production-focused UAS designs with Hughes Bros.’ aerospace manufacturing expertise to support scalable production for U.S. and allied defense customers TEXAS (August 12, 2026)  – Purple Rhombus, an aerospace and defense company focused on

  4. Purple Rhombus Awarded SBIR Phase III Contract/news/purple-rhombus-sbir-phase-iii

    Production-scale attritable UAS for operational experimentation TEXAS (January 13, 2026)  – Purple Rhombus today announced the award of an SBIR Phase III contract from AFWERX, the innovation arm of the U.S. Air Force, marking a significant step toward delivering industrial-scale

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    We’re growing our team! If you don’t see a fit, check back often!

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    Deterrence rests on a simple idea: make the cost of aggression exceed the benefit. It requires more than exquisite capability—it requires credible capacity.

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  1. purple-rhombus.com/

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  1. Purple Rhombus tapped for Army long-range drone projectpurple-rhombus.com/news/army-bolt

    Purple Rhombus says it has won an Army contract to develop a long-range variant of its Group 2 Grackle unmanned aerial system. Project Beyond-Horizon Lethality and Targeting (BOLT) supports the Army's I Corps Innovation and Concepts Branch efforts in the Pacific. CEO Mike Benitez says the Grackle-XR will help extend the Army's tactical reach with low-cost, mass-producible drones; further details are withheld at the Army's request for security reasons.

    Aug 2026 · Purple RhombusNews article

  2. Purple Rhombus and Hughes Bros. Aircrafters Enter Manufacturing Agreement to Scale Drone Productionpurple-rhombus.com/news/hughes-bros

    Purple Rhombus announces a strategic manufacturing agreement with Hughes Bros. Aircrafters to support production of its unmanned aircraft systems. Hughes Bros. Aircrafters will provide production engineering, tooling, fabrication, and manufacturing, as the companies aim to move Purple Rhombus aircraft into repeatable, high-rate production by applying decades of aerospace manufacturing expertise.

    Aug 2026 · Purple RhombusNews article

  3. Grackle Added to Blue UAS Listpurple-rhombus.com/news/purple-rhombus-blue-uas

    Purple Rhombus says its Grackle unmanned aircraft system has been added to the Blue UAS cleared list. The designation permits direct procurement of Grackle by the Department of War and other eligible U.S. government buyers that require NDAA-compliant small UAS platforms.

    Jun 2026 · Purple RhombusNews article

  4. Purple Rhombus Awarded SBIR Phase III Contractpurple-rhombus.com/news/purple-rhombus-sbir-phase-iii

    Purple Rhombus announces it has been awarded an SBIR Phase III contract. The contract supports continued development and production of the company's unmanned aircraft systems for U.S. government customers, building on prior SBIR work aimed at fieldable, mass-producible platforms.

    Jan 2026 · Purple RhombusNews article