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Mobix Labs to Acquire U.S.-Built Drone Manufacturer Vision Aerial, Expanding Into Global Drone and Aerial Intelligence Markets
Mobix Labs to Acquire U.S.-Built Drone Manufacturer Vision Aerial, Expanding Into Global Drone and Aerial Intelligence Markets
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IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Mobix Labs, Inc. (Nasdaq: MOBX) today announced that it has signed a binding Letter of Intent to acquire Vision Aerial, Inc., a Montana-based manufacturer of American-built drones trusted in national security, government, energy, public safety, and critical infrastructure operations. The acquisition expands Mobix Labs into a fast-growing global market and marks the latest step in its previously announced strategy to grow through targeted, mission-critical acquisitions. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260604386607/en/ Built in America. Trusted Where Performance Matters. Founded in 2013, Vision Aerial designs, manufactures, and supports rugged drone systems built for the most demanding field operations. Each aircraft can carry swappable cameras and sensors—from high-resolution and heat-sensing thermal cameras to laser-based 3-D mapping and gas-leak detection—allowing one platform to support multiple mission profiles across demanding field operations. Vision Aerial’s drones support national-security and public-safety operations, search-and-rescue, wildfire response, energy and infrastructure inspection, environmental monitoring, agriculture, and advanced aerial sensing. Its customer and end-user base includes the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, the USDA Forest Service, and L3Harris, alongside major energy and utility operators such as Marathon Oil, DTE Energy, and Northwestern Energy, and leading research universities—relationships that take years to earn. A Global Opportunity, Accelerating Now Global demand for secure, high-performance drone systems is accelerating as governments, utilities, energy producers, public-safety agencies, and industrial operators are deploying them to protect national security interests, inspect critical assets, respond to emergencies, monitor operations, and reach places too dangerous, remote, or costly for people to access manually. In the United States, federal restrictions on certain foreign-made drones are speeding the shift to trusted domestic systems, and international buyers are increasingly applying similar standards around security, reliability and supply-chain integrity. Vision Aerial’s American-built platform gives Mobix Labs a direct entry point into that worldwide demand—where American-made technology carrie...