Archer Aviation Inc. (NYSE: ACHR) has reached a new milestone, announcing an agreement to supply Anduril Industries and EDGE Group with its proprietary dual-use electric powertrain technology. The partnership will accelerate the development and future production of Anduril’s Omen Autonomous Air Vehicle system.

The UAE has committed to an initial acquisition of 50 Omen systems, establishing early demand for both the Omen platform and Archer’s powertrain technology. This agreement marks the first time Archer will make its advanced electric powertrain—already in use on the company’s Midnight eVTOL aircraft—available to an external partner, creating a new revenue stream for the business.

Archer has invested significantly in its electric powertrain architecture, which has been optimised for a range of commercial and defence aviation applications. The expansion of supply to defence customers builds on the company’s accumulated expertise in battery and electric engine technologies.

Archer is manufacturing the powertrain across nearly 1,000,000 square feet of production and testing facilities in the United States. Key manufacturing processes are automated to ensure reliability and scalable output.

“While most see our Midnight eVTOL as an aircraft, we view Midnight as a platform that plays host to a wide range of new and exciting aerospace technologies that will be leveraged way beyond our own aircraft. Our powertrain deal with Anduril is the first of what we expect to be many examples of this,” said Adam Goldstein, founder and CEO of Archer. He added that almost a year of close collaboration with Anduril’s engineers has revealed additional partnership opportunities beyond the hybrid-electric aircraft project the two companies are already advancing.

Shane Arnott, Anduril’s Senior Vice President of Engineering, said, “We’ve been working on Omen for more than five years.

By combining the Archer team’s expertise in powertrain technology with a little bit of Anduril magic, we’ve been able to mature our propulsion solution to achieve the ranges, speeds, and payload capacity we need to make Omen operationally relevant for a variety of dual-use mission sets. 

The maturity and reliability of Archer’s powertrain platform de-risks our plans to deliver a production variant of Omen to customers at scale.”

Archer has also been active internationally with its Midnight eVTOL, announcing an exclusive agreement with Korean Air to commercialise AAM technology across various markets. In Japan, both Osaka and Tokyo have selected Archer and its local partner to lead AAM deployments.

Midnight is a piloted aircraft designed to carry four passengers and perform rapid back-to-back flights with minimal charging time between sectors. The aircraft aims to replace 60–90-minute car journeys with 10–20-minute electric air taxi flights.