Green UAS Cleared recognizes MONARK's alignment with rigorous cybersecurity and supply chain standards for government, public safety, and commercial operations.
Lubbock, TX — July 21, 2026 — EchoMAV Technologies, Inc., a developer of secure, mission-ready unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), today announced that its MONARK unmanned aircraft system has been officially added to the Green UAS Cleared List through the Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International's (AUVSI) Green UAS program.
The Green UAS Cleared designation recognizes the MONARK's alignment with rigorous frameworks for product and device security, cybersecurity, and supply chain risk management. For customers, that means greater confidence that the platform has been evaluated against recognized security standards and is built using trusted development and manufacturing practices.
The MONARK is a lightweight, modular Group 1 unmanned aircraft system engineered for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), mapping, communications relay, payload integration, and operations in contested and GPS-degraded environments. Designed with an open architecture, the platform can be configured with different payloads, radios, batteries, and software, allowing operators to tailor the aircraft to changing mission requirements without replacing the airframe. Its field-repairable design further reduces downtime and extends operational readiness in demanding environments.
“Security has to be built into the product from the beginning—it can't be something you add later," said Trey Sprinkle, Chief Executive Officer of EchoMAV Technologies. "Green UAS Cleared validates the work our team has put into building a platform customers can trust. Whether it's supporting a public safety agency or a military unit, operators need confidence that the technology they're relying on is secure, dependable, and built the right way.”
The Green UAS program evaluates unmanned aircraft against comprehensive security criteria covering product security, secure communications, corporate cybersecurity, and supply chain integrity. That gives customers another way to identify trusted platforms without having to evaluate every aspect of a manufacturer's security practices themselves.
As demand grows for secure, NDAA-compliant drone solutions, organizations are placing greater emphasis on cybersecurity, supply chain transparency, and trusted manufacturing. Green UAS helps simplify that evaluation by providing an independent assessment against recognized security standards. For EchoMAV, achieving Green UAS Cleared reflects the company's continued investment in building secure, mission-ready platforms customers can deploy with confidence.
"We're not interested in checking boxes. We're focused on building equipment that people can trust when the mission is on the line," Sprinkle added. " Green UAS Cleared is an important milestone, but more importantly it reinforces our commitment to building equipment that earns our customers' trust every time they put it in the air."