Product
Ridge
UAS MOTOR SERIES
Ridge is an American-made brushless drone motor engineered for the demands of combat UAS and large-scale production.
Ridge-2207
concept
Ridge
Ridge
UAS MOTOR SERIES
Ridge is an American-made brushless drone motor engineered for the demands of combat UAS and large-scale production.
DFARS-traceable
Domestic and allied sourcing, down to the magnets
NDAA-compliant
Cleared for federal procurement, no waiver required
Mass-producible
Engineered for volume from day one, not a retrofitted hobby part
Purpose
The American industrial base that won the wars of the 20th century has now been hollowed out and offshored to our adversaries in the 21st.
But decline is not inevitable.
We're a part of the next generation of American manufacturer: small enough to move fast, serious enough to build at scale, and unwilling to wait for permission.
c. 1940s
The Arsenal of Democracy.
National Archives.
Reindustrialize
Locale
In 2027, we're setting up in Jackson County.
We're bringing modern industrial capacity to Middle Tennessee and breathing new life into its manufacturing base.
36°21′35″N 85°39′17″W
Impact
60 jobs
brought to Jackson County at full capacity
$20m+
in economic impact by the end of 2028
$300k+
in annual state & local tax revenue
American at every level
Every material is sourced domestically and all components are designed and manufactured locally. No offshored parts and no foreign supply chains.
Production at scale
Using advanced assembly-line methods, we're scaling from 200,000 units to 1 million units of annual capacity by 2028.
Operate with integrity
No cut corners. No cheap substitutes. We build it right for our warfighters, our country, and the community we call home.
Founder & CEO
Stephen
Totter
is an attorney, real estate investor, and national security professional with more than 20 years of military and homeland security experience.
A Lieutenant Colonel in the Army National Guard and Iraq veteran, he has held senior leadership roles in counter-terrorism, intelligence, and sustainment operations, and in 2026 was selected to instruct the Swedish Armed Forces on ISR and UAS targeting.
Stephen also spent more than a decade working with the Department of Homeland Security and manages an international real estate portfolio. In 2027, he will relocate to Tennessee to launch and lead Highland War Industries.
Founder & CTO
Jack
Bryan
has worked at companies with fewer than 10 people and more than 10,000. He has built payloads under 20 kilograms and helped build the largest spaceship ever flown.
As employee number six and chief engineer at Sent into Space, he helped grow a bootstrapped startup from five-figure contracts to its first multimillion-dollar deals. At Masten Space Systems, he rallied the teams behind a NASA lunar lander through critical design review. At SpaceX, he designed and runs the production lines for Starship's payload section across three vehicle generations and has helped build every Starship that has flown atop a Super Heavy booster.
Jack has been building drones since college. Now, at Highland War Industries, he and co-founder Stephen Totter are building the part no one in America makes at scale: the motor.
June 1942.
Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines.
LC-USE6-D-006529