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Allan Evans

Chief Executive Officer, Unusual Machines, Inc.

Search every verified Allan Evans interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Allan Evans, CEO of Unusual Machines, discussed the company’s position in the drone supply chain during recent appearances. On The Big Biz Show, he addressed the impact of tariffs and restrictions on Chinese drone-motor suppliers, stating that the company competes as a global commodity and expects margin improvement even if tariffs are removed. He also noted that the company grew eight times larger in the last quarter and emphasized the need to scale rapidly to support the drone industry’s supply chain. In a separate interview, he described an investment in Extend, an Israeli drone company, and discussed the broader shift toward physical AI, arguing that reliable components like motors and batteries are essential for the technology’s development. At an AUVSI and SBA panel on building America’s drone supply chain, Evans said that recent policies, including the FCC’s actions and the American Security Drone Act, have created a "legislatively created market vacuum" that is driving demand toward domestic suppliers. He acknowledged the quality of Chinese manufacturing but noted that coordinated U.S. policy efforts are pushing the industry toward domestic production. He also commented on the recentralization of global supply chains, saying that 40 years of globalization led to specialization in places like Taiwan and China, but that current U.S. re-industrialization efforts are shifting that dynamic. Additionally, he mentioned that the FCC’s ban on foreign robots, including robot vacuums, could force more manufacturing to occur in the U.S., following a similar playbook to the drone industry.

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“I think there are a couple things they did extremely well as individual companies, not necessarily as a country. First, the country supported the individual companies, which I think we're seeing domestically now. Um there was this energy, this positive urgency in China over the last 20 years where you thought the world was wide open and you could go after and there wasn't the same barriers, the same friction to going”

“So, first the work being done in China is incredible. Like I think it's very important for us to recognize that they're the best in the world at consumer electronics manufacturing and at manufacturing at scale of small devices. What I think I've seen done pretty coordinated and pretty holistically across the administration, the Department of War, the FCC, everyone else is this notion when you talk about tiered supply”

“The FCC recently banned foreign robots, including things like robot vacuum. So what does that mean exactly? Well, it means if people don't get waivers, they're going to have to make robots in the US. This is the same playbook they used for drones. So now it's being used for things like robot vacuums and humanoids and internet routers because I think we've discovered... I think what we have realized is that if there's”

“40 years of globalization allowed us as a world to get the most efficient you know we had specialization like TSMC and Taiwan or the rise of excellent manufacturing in China and the movement of a billion people from abject poverty into the global middle class. Okay, that's pretty cool. Now, a lot of them weren't in the US. Fine. We um but now this recentralization, Europe's notion of tech sovereignty, the US re-indus”

“We're putting up software numbers for a hardware company. Right? I was on the show maybe a year ago. You can go pull stuff we're eight times bigger than a year ago. Twice as big as last quarter. Building stuff, getting it out the door. That's shipped physical goods. Now, we did all that, reduced our burn. We only burned 400K over 1.5 million from last quarter. So, we're growing at this incredible rate that looks like”

“Macro movement in our equity based on how the midterm elections look, based on what the government budget looks like going into September, October when it rolls over, you know, any late acquisitions during sweeps. Typically, I don't know if you know much about government procurement, but for a lot of money, it expires at the end of the government fiscal year, which is the end of September. So, you get a lot of money ”

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