// ABOUT
BUILT BY OPERATORS. BUILT IN AMERICA.
Veteran-owned. Family-owned. Owner-operated. Engineered in Sonora, Texas.
// MISSION
Cattle Dog Drones exists to put operator-led, NDAA-compliant unmanned systems into the hands of the people doing the work — and to do it from a part of the country that builds things with its hands.
We believe U.S. defense manufacturing benefits from being decentralized: out of the coastal hubs, into the towns where engineering, machining, and military service are still part of the same culture. Sonora is one of those places.
// FOUNDER
AUSTIN GLASSCOCK
FORMER RECON MARINE & SCOUT SNIPER
Austin founded Cattle Dog Drones in 2025 to bridge operator experience with rapid prototyping and small-batch manufacturing. His background as a Recon Marine and Scout Sniper informs every engineering decision the company makes.
Headquartered in Sonora, Texas, CDD is family-owned and owner-operated — a deliberate choice to keep American defense manufacturing connected to the people and communities it serves.
// OPERATOR EXPERIENCE
DOCTRINE INFORMS DESIGN
Every CDD platform is shaped by real special-operations experience. These are the operational contexts and doctrines that inform our engineering.
HAHO / HALO
Military freefall integration.
Force Recon CQB
Close-quarters combat doctrine.
Greenside Recon
Patrol-based reconnaissance.
Amphibious & Littoral
Maritime and shoreline ops.
VBSS
Visit, board, search, seizure.
Sniper Operations
Raid · Aerial · Urban.
// TIMELINE
2025
FOUNDING
Cattle Dog Drones founded in Sonora, Texas to bridge operator experience with rapid prototyping and small-batch manufacturing.
2026
FIRST SYSTEMS DELIVERED
K9 ground vehicles and survey UAVs fielded with initial customers.