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Cameron Chell

Chief Executive Officer & Executive Chairman, Draganfly Inc.

Search every verified Cameron Chell interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In a June 2026 interview with PreMarket Playbook, Cameron Chell discussed Draganfly's recent developments, emphasizing the company's focus on public safety, commercial, and military drone applications. He stated that IACLEA, an international association of law enforcement professionals for campuses, had selected and standardized on Draganfly for training and equipment, noting that the organization represents approximately 3,000 universities and campuses worldwide, with about 85% in the US. Chell also discussed the broader drone and autonomy investment landscape, mentioning a recent announcement by JPMorgan to invest a trillion dollars over the next decade into that space, and said Draganfly was working to be part of an industry forum the bank set up. Chell described drones as the "front edge of quantum and AI and autonomy," saying they collect real-world data that feeds into those technologies, and highlighted Draganfly's efforts to bring NDAA-compliant technology from allied nations for manufacturing in the United States. He said the company was meeting the current administration's mandate to create a US industrial base, and expressed appreciation for investor support over the company's 27-year history.

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“JP Morgan about just under a month ago announced that they were going to invest a trillion dollars over the next 10 years into that space. And they've set up an industry forum and initiative of a number of companies and professionals of which we're working to be a part of in order to not just access that, but provide guidance into how they want to best employ it. Now, drones really are the front edge of quantum and A”

“We just finished off a record quarter. You know, consensus out there right now is 18 million bucks this year. I'm super comfortable we're going to hit that. There's a couple of outlier contracts that were very down the far down the path on. And you know, I just think the main thing for me is actually just to see the customer confidence growing and the amount of referrals that are coming in because of the work that we”

“We've been awarded a contract to do initial build-out to build an ultra-mobile counter-drone system that will do targeting and defeat. And it needs to be man-packable. So, we have a number of technologies that we've demonstrated to Army DEVCOM, who's awarded us this initial contract, that can actually allow a soldier to man-pack a counter-drone system to go, you know, protect a forward operating base or an overnight ”

“The demand signal just from the drone dominance program is so big it'll suck up every part out of the market. That doesn't even count the Marines or the Navy or special ops or the commercial market or the international market.”

“I'd be disappointed if we were sitting here three years from now and we didn't have a $5 billion market cap. I think to have that you need about a half a billion bucks in revenue. Our very strict pipeline today already exceeds that.”

“Somewhere around 45 to 50 million dollars is a very comfortable number for us to see cash flow break even. However, we're going to push it beyond that. We don't really want to be profitable. I know that sounds like an odd thing to say, but until we kind of start pushing up into that 70 or 80 million dollars worth of revenue recognized revenue range.”

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