Aurelius Systems Opens U.S. Manufacturing Line for High-Power Fiber Lasers

Autonomous laser defense company launches domestic production of high-power laser sources

SAN FRANCISCO, April 29, 2026–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aurelius Systems, the autonomous laser defense company behind the Archimedes counter-UAS system, today announced Aurelius Manufacturing, a new division that will build high-power fiber laser source modules in the United States.

The U.S. defense laser supply chain has a gap. Demand for high-power fiber lasers is growing across military and industrial applications. A small number of established domestic manufacturers produce laser sources, but the market is shifting. Chinese laser companies have taken majority share in Asia Pacific, a region that accounts for nearly half the global fiber laser market, and are expanding into the U.S. through new automation products and service networks. For defense programs that need ITAR-compliant components from a supplier they can trace end to end, the pool of qualified domestic options is small and getting smaller relative to demand.

Aurelius set out to build Archimedes, its autonomous counter-UAS system, to give American forces scalable defense against drone threats. In doing so, the team found that domestic production of high-power fiber lasers has been shrinking for over a decade, with most remaining suppliers no longer American-owned. Aurelius Manufacturing is the company’s response: a U.S. production line for the same fiber laser source modules and components that sit at the heart of any directed-energy system, and that American manufacturers have had to import for years.

The launch comes as the Pentagon pushes to field laser weapons at scale within 36 months, backed by $250 million in directed energy R&D funding from the One Big Beautiful Bill. The Department of Defense’s fiscal year 2027 budget requested more than quadruples that figure, proposing over $2 billion in directed energy RDT&E. The Army’s Enduring High Energy Laser program is moving toward its first production contract, with plans to acquire up to 24 systems. Navy leadership has called for lasers on every ship in the surface fleet. As these programs move from prototyping into production, the number of domestic suppliers building defense-grade laser sources has not kept pace. Lead times from qualified vendors are long, and the industrial base needs more capacity.

Aurelius Manufacturing’s first product is a compact, rack-integrated fiber laser source module rated at multi-kilowatt output. Units will be available from prototype quantities through full-rate production, with configurations tailored to directed-energy and industrial manufacturing applications.

Aurelius’s laser sources are designed to be ITAR-compliant with full domestic traceability and no dependency on foreign allocation schedules. For industrial customers running laser welding, metal cutting, surface treatment, or additive manufacturing lines, domestic production will mean shorter lead times and direct access to the engineers building the hardware.

“It’s clear the domestic production of high-power lasers in the US is significantly lower than necessary to support both our directed energy and defense needs. Laser system production has been continually offshored outside of our lands. In order to support our customers, the directed energy industry at large and the growing material processing industry in the US, we’ll be vertically integrating and producing lasers here in the homeland,” said Michael Laframboise, CEO of Aurelius Systems.

Production capacity reservations for Q1 2027 are open. Customers can reach Aurelius at aureliusmanufacturing.com.

About Aurelius Systems

Aurelius Systems is a San Francisco-based defense technology company building autonomous laser systems. Its first product, Archimedes, is a counter-drone system designed to defeat Group 1 and 2 UAS threats. Through Aurelius Manufacturing, the company is building domestic production of high-power fiber laser sources for defense and industrial customers. All products are designed and built in the United States. For more information, visit aureliussystems.com.

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ZS2 Expands U.S. Manufacturing Through Supreme Insulated Panel Systems Integration

Strategic manufacturing expansion will strengthen material availability for high-performance construction projects across the U.S.

ZS2 TechPanel® integrates magnesium cement sheathing and insulation into a high-performance panelized system manufactured for climate resilience. Increased U.S. production capacity supports growing demand across North American construction markets. (CNW Group/ZS2 Technologies Ltd.)

CALGARY — ZS2 is expanding its North American manufacturing footprint into the United States through the integration of manufacturing assets from Supreme Insulated Panel Systems LLC, based in Mobile, Alabama. This expansion increases available production capacity for magnesium cement panelized building systems to support growing demand across U.S. and Caribbean construction markets.

Per a Feb. 12 press release, as demand continues to reportedly grow for materials that improve fire performance, durability, and long-term building resilience, expanding manufacturing capacity to meet increasing demand in key Southern and Eastern United States markets helps accelerate adoption of these systems while strengthening domestic access to advanced construction materials.

“Demand for higher-performance building materials is accelerating across North America as the industry responds to climate risk, insurance pressure, and evolving building performance expectations,” said Scott Jenkins, CEO, ZS2 Technologies. “Expanding manufacturing capacity into the United States strengthens the industry’s ability to access advanced building systems at scale and supports long-term material innovation across the built environment.”

Per the press release, Supreme Insulated Panel Systems has served residential and commercial construction markets with energy-efficient insulated panel systems. Their manufacturing background is being combined with ZS2’s magnesium cement technology to try and support broader adoption of higher-performance building envelope systems across U.S. construction markets.

Production capabilities at the Mobile facility are being phased in alongside standard third-party certification and facility qualification processes, with additional listed production capabilities expected to come online as certification pathways are completed later this year.

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Morph Systems, a defense industry and U.S. manufacturing data integration platform developer, announ..

Defense & U.S. Manufacturing Data Platform
Palantir Foundry Technology Utilization

사진 확대 A case of Morph Systems’ ontology construction that can identify relationships between unstructured data [Morph Systems]

Morph Systems, a defense industry and U.S. manufacturing data integration platform developer, announced on the 20th that it has attracted pre-seed investment from Mashup Ventures and 500 Global.

Morph Systems is an enterprise AI company that designs supply chain data and workflow for defense and U.S. manufacturing companies that are pushing for utilization advancement after the introduction of Palantir. Establish an ontology model that systematically defines data relationships according to the customer’s work context, and design data flows so that ERP (company resource management), logistics, settlement, and operation data can lead to actual decision-making and execution.

In addition, for organizations in the early stages of Palantir introduction, data and work structure design is also being carried out considering future expansion. Customers can have a data processing structure and a high-performance computing environment that can operate stably even if the supply chain expands. The technological excellence of these morph systems is advantageous not only at the manufacturing site, but also in the military and defense industry environment that requires large-scale material movement and strict traceability.

CEO Park Min-gyu, a graduate of Seoul National University’s Department of Aerospace Engineering, has published a number of international academic papers in the field of reinforcement learning, served as an AI researcher at the Korea Military Academy, and conducted defense and public AI projects. While working on a Palantir Foundry-based consulting project, he discovered the demand for data integration in the manufacturing and defense industries and decided to start a business. Co-founder Koo Ha-rim is a graduate of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore and has two startup experiences and is in charge of data integration and AI system implementation directly in the field.

Morph Systems expects 40% of its sales to come from U.S. customers since its first year, and to expand to more than 80% this year. Recently, in recognition of the excellence of data integration technology that can handle large-scale supply chains stably, it was selected for the TIPS program organized by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups and secured up to 500 million won in R&D funds. The selection of this tip was made on the recommendation of Mashup Ventures.

“After attracting this investment, we plan to implement a large-scale ontology-based computational and decision-making operation system centered on the U.S. market,” said Park Min-gyu, CEO of Morph Systems. “The ultimate goal is to expand to Neo-Cloud infrastructure and software layers optimized for specific industries and workloads based on our experience in operating field-oriented AI systems.”

Lee Seung-guk, a Mashup Ventures partner who led the investment, said, “The demand for data integration and decision-making automation is increasing rapidly in the process of re-industrialization and supply chain reorganization in the United States. Morph Systems is a team that solves core problems in the manufacturing and defense industry based on Palantir Foundry-based data integration technology and field-oriented experience, and it is expected to grow quickly in the U.S. market.”

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