Dronemaker Powerus, backed by Trump brothers, goes public

Promotional image of the Powerus Guardian-2 drone interceptor. (Powerus)

WASHINGTON — Powerus, a US-based drone company linked to the Trump brothers, became a publicly traded company today.

Powerus announced this morning that it had completed its merger with a subsidiary of Aureus Greenway Holdings Inc., a publicly-traded holding company backed by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump through their stake in American Ventures.

Powerus will continue as the “surviving entity,” with AGH adopting the former’s name, AGH stated in a news release on Wednesday.

“Completing this transaction puts Powerus in a position to build at the scale our customers are asking for,” Powerus CEO Andrew Fox said a news release today. “Our focus does not change on October 1. The work is the same work.”

Powerus was founded in October 2025 with the intent of bringing battle-tested Ukrainian drone technologies to the United States. Since then, it has quickly accumulated deals with the Pentagon and international customers, such as a $2.5 million purchase order from the Defense Department for 1,500 First Person View (FPV) drones.

It also includes an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with the Air Force for its Guardian-2 counter-drone interceptor — a contract vehicle that allows the service to place orders according to its need, with a ceiling value of up to $90 million if all options are executed.

In the realm of international sales, Powerus has booked a “limited procurement order” for drones from Pakistan and is establishing a production site for its Guardian counterdrone system with a local manufacturer in the United Arab Emirates.

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The firm’s ties with the Trump family have raised eyebrows among congressional Democrats, with Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., voicing concerns in a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth earlier this year.

“The involvement of the President’s children cast a cloud of corruption and conflict of interest over any DoD contracts that this company may receive,” Warren and Blumenthal said in the March letter.

Blumenthal later cited Powerus’s contracts with the Defense Department as one of the underlying reasons he introduced legislation in September that would levy a 100 percent surtax on income earned by a company owned or controlled by the president or his family members.

Powerus officials have repeatedly denied any conflicts of interest, with its co-founder Brett Velicovich telling the Associated Press in March, “Our focus at the company has nothing to do with politics.”

Powerus Guardian-2无人机拦截器的宣传图片。（Powerus）

华盛顿——与特朗普兄弟有关联的美国无人机公司 Powerus 今天成为一家上市公司。

Powerus今天上午宣布，已完成与Aureus Greenway Holdings Inc.旗下子公司的合并。Aureus Greenway Holdings Inc.是一家公开交易的控股公司，由小唐纳德·特朗普和埃里克·特朗普通过他们在American Ventures的股份支持。

AGH周三在一份新闻稿中表示，Powerus将继续作为“存续实体”，AGH将沿用前者的名称。

Powerus首席执行官安德鲁·福克斯今天在一份新闻稿中表示：“完成这项交易使Powerus能够以客户要求的规模进行建设。10月1日之后，我们的工作重点不会改变。工作内容依然是同样的。”

Powerus成立于2025年10月，旨在将久经沙场的乌克兰无人机技术引入美国。自成立以来，该公司迅速与五角大楼和国际客户达成交易，例如国防部价值250万美元的1500架第一人称视角（FPV）无人机采购订单。

其中包括与美国空军签订的 Guardian-2 反无人机拦截器无限期交付/无限量 (IDIQ) 合同——该合同允许美国空军根据自身需要下订单，如果所有选项都得到执行，最高价值可达 9000 万美元。

在国际销售领域，Powerus 已从巴基斯坦获得了一份“有限采购订单”，用于采购无人机，并且正在与阿联酋的一家当地制造商合作，为其 Guardian 反无人机系统建立一个生产基地。

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该公司与特朗普家族的关系引起了国会民主党人的关注，马萨诸塞州民主党参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦和康涅狄格州民主党参议员理查德·布卢门撒尔今年早些时候在一封致国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯的信中表达了他们的担忧。

沃伦和布卢门撒尔在三月份的信中表示：“总统子女的参与给这家公司可能获得的任何国防部合同都蒙上了腐败和利益冲突的阴影。”

布卢门撒尔后来将鲍勒斯与国防部的合同列为他在 9 月份提出立法的根本原因之一，该立法将对总统或其家庭成员拥有或控制的公司所赚取的收入征收 100% 的附加税。

Powerus 的官员一再否认存在任何利益冲突，其联合创始人 Brett Velicovich 在 3 月份告诉美联社：“我们公司的重点与政治无关。”