The ESC is a covered component under every major federal drone compliance regime. Lirith builds to those regimes from the first schematic and ships every unit with the paperwork that makes them real.
Every Lirith component is sourced from an approved, documented vendor, with country-of-origin recorded at the part-number level and lot-level traceability from assembly through shipment. The BOM is not an afterthought — it is the compliance record.
Lirith ESCs are designed, assembled, coated, tested, and packaged in the United States. We build to the Buy American Act's qualifying-end-product threshold, and we structure our BOM and manufacturing flow to support the Trade Agreements Act designations our customers need when they compete for federal contracts.
Our customers include drone OEMs bidding on federal programs under FAR 52.225-series clauses. We understand what those clauses require because we wrote our processes to satisfy them.
NDAA §848 defines covered components explicitly. If any of these parts in your drone trace back to a covered foreign entity, your platform fails federal procurement requirements — regardless of final assembly location or brand name on the package.
The component that most frequently creates compliance failures in Group 1 and Group 2 UAS programs is the ESC. Nearly every hobbyist and commercial ESC in volume production today is manufactured in China.
Full definition in Glossary →An ESC sits between the battery and every motor. It controls thrust, monitors power draw, and can report telemetry to the flight controller. A compromised ESC could desync a motor on command, drain a battery, or exfiltrate flight data over a telemetry channel. For OEMs building for federal programs, every ESC in the BOM requires a non-covered-entity attestation — and most cannot provide one for Chinese-manufactured parts.
The Lirith QuadDrive 80A is purpose-built to solve this. Every component traces to a non-covered-entity vendor, and we provide the documentation to prove it.
Customers receive the full compliance package after an evaluation agreement is in place.
Signed attestation of NDAA §848, §817, ASDA FY24, and EO 13981 conformance per unit, per lot.
Formal country-of-origin determination for Buy American Act and Trade Agreements Act evaluation.
Full bill-of-materials breakdown with manufacturer, part number, and country-of-origin for every component line item.
Lot-level electrical test reports, thermal and environmental qualification data, and quality acceptance records.
Supply-chain attestation covering sourcing, assembly, and manufacturing provenance from raw material to ship date.
Talk to our team about evaluation units, qualification support, and the documentation your procurement office already needs.