Packet Digital Awarded $9.8 million U.S. Navy Contract to Scale Battery Cell Production
Packet Digital, and its subsidiary Badland Batteries, a U.S.-based leader in advanced lithium-ion battery technology for drones, unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and other defense applications, announced today that it has been awarded $9.8 million as it moves to Phase 3 of its U.S. Navy contract under the Logistics UAS Family of Advanced Batteries program.
Packet Digital awarded $27 million Phase III SBIR contract to bolster domestic battery manufacturing
Packet Digital, the parent company of Badland Batteries, announced that it has been awarded a $27 million contract by the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division to scale domestic manufacturing of battery cells.
Site selected for Packet Digital’s drone battery cell manufacturing facility
Once completed, Packet Digital will build high-performance battery cells and assemble battery packs at its manufacturing facility in Fargo.
Packet Digital to build battery cell factory in North Dakota
Packet Digital is bringing battery cell manufacturing to American shores, which will limit supply chain issues and reliance on adversarial parties.