Camp Grayling

Well, you should come see it.

So we're going to run a bomber competition in about a month at Camp Grayling.

So a bomber is more of a group two-ish type of drone.

It's like a quad or octocopter or a sextocopter.

Well, a few.

Five Chinese nationals connected to the university were charged in 2024 following an incident at Camp Grayling in Michigan, a National Guard training facility, where they took pictures at the training facility.

The individuals were near the facility, um, in, in, during an August 2023, um, training exercise, and they took photographs of military equipment and vehicles.

They also gave false and misleading statements and tried to delete the photographs.

Have you guys started already production or thinking about it or is this just still up in the air?

yeah we uh we started shooting two weeks ago for it and um so we spent some time in Marquette Michigan over Lake Superior and then uh we it will will also talk to different experiences around the state and we talked to a gentleman in Houghton Lake Michigan who caught a pretty astounding um video of something anomalous over this in the sky over uh lake houghton and uh near camp grayling camp grayling sort of michigan's uh area 51 if you will

i didn't know that camp grayling is called

camp grayling a lot of people don't know

about it it's

a it's a national um uh, army reserve training facility.

have a cabin in the woods.

That's so cool.

A permanent fix isn't expected until 2028, so more new jets will likely keep flying without full radar capability in the meantime.

Separately, the Pentagon's Drone Dominance Program took a big step toward its goal of fielding more than 200,000 low-cost attack drones by 2027, This month, it selected its top five vendors, including Perennial Autonomy and Enderos Technologies, to supply roughly 60,000 drones for Deep Strike and Close Quarters missions, building on $300 million in earlier production orders with a new prototype competition for reusable drone bombers set for October at Camp Grayling in

Michigan.

For our business and industry story this week, it's worth looking past the giant familiar defense contractors to two smaller suppliers riding the same wave from a different angle.