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American Lithium Energy

Made-in-USA Lithium-Ion Cells, Packs & Energy Storage

With over 20 years in lithium-ion battery R&D and manufacturing, American Lithium Energy (ALE) develops advanced cells using Silicon, LFP, LCO, LMFP, NMC and Graphite chemistries – delivering NDAA Section 842 compliant, drop-in battery solutions from watt-hours to megawatt-hours across land, sea, air and space.

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Made in USAAS9100DITAR RegisteredNDAA FY26 §842UN 38.3 / UL 1642

2006Founded

110+Patents

82KSq ft U.S. facility

0Foreign ownership (FOCI)

About ALE

Electrifying Earth and beyond

American Lithium Energy is a U.S.-owned, vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of advanced lithium-ion cells, modules, packs and energy storage systems. Engineering, electrode manufacturing, cell assembly, formation and aging, abuse testing, pack integration and quality control all take place under one roof in a single AS9100D-certified California facility.

ALE has been awarded sustained funding from the U.S. Department of War, the Department of Energy, the California Energy Commission and Space Force STRATFI to qualify domestic production, scale advanced silicon and LFP chemistries, and field zero-volt-tolerant cells in operational satellite missions.

Founded: 2006
Ownership: U.S.-owned small business · No foreign ownership, control, or influence (FOCI)
Facility: 82,000 sq ft – dry room, clean room, electrode and cell production, mega-line, abuse-test labs
Quality System: AS9100D · ISO 9001:2015 · ISO 13485
Regulatory: ITAR registered · NDAA FY26 Section 842 compliant · UL 1642 · UN 38.3 · AIAA S-144
Production: Mega-line at multi-million-cell annual capacity · GWh-class scale-up in execution
Test Capability: 2,000+ formation channels · UN 38.3 / UL 1642 abuse testing

Markets We Serve

Battery power for every operational domain

From a watt-hour wearable carried by a dismounted soldier to a megawatt-hour reserve aboard a ship, the same cell-level advantages – high energy density, high power, intrinsic safety and wide temperature operation – apply across all of them.

Aerospace

LEO, MEO & GEO spacecraft
UAV
eVTOL
Commercial aerospace (interior)

Mobility

UGVs – Unmanned Ground Vehicles
USVs – Uncrewed Surface Vehicles
UUVs / AUVs – Uncrewed Autonomous
Marine communications
EV & energy storage

Medtech

Smart wearable
Implantable
Mobile devices

Defense

Dismounted soldier power
Smart munitions & fuzes
Directed-energy & radar systems
Shipboard energy reserves

The Drop-In Battery Solution Model

Not just cells. Qualified, drop-in battery systems.

A program that buys raw cells inherits cell selection, pack design, BMS development, thermal management, abuse testing and certification. ALE delivers a finished system – cells matched to mission, modules engineered for the form factor, packs integrated with BMS and thermal control, and certification aligned with your platform.

Cell Design

Chemistry, format and electrode formulation matched to the mission profile – energy-dominant, power-dominant or hybrid.

Module Engineering

Mechanical, electrical and thermal architecture, including cell-to-cell isolation and propagation containment.

Pack Integration

Series/parallel assembly to your voltage and capacity, with housing, connectors and serviceability designed in.

BMS & Thermal

Battery management co-designed with the cells – state-of-health monitoring, balancing, protection and thermal control.

Certification

Documentation and test data supporting MIL-STD-810, MIL-PRF-32565, DO-311A, AIAA S-144, UL 1642 and UN 38.3.

How this reduces program risk

Shorten the supplier qualification path and remove the most common reasons a battery vendor is disqualified late in the program cycle.

One supplier accountable for the entire energy storage subsystem – no integration mismatch between cell, pack and BMS vendors.
No foreign cell qualification. NDAA Section 842 compliance is built in from raw material sourcing forward.
Documentation packages designed for U.S. defense acquisition workflows.
Engineering samples available before production tooling is committed.
Direct technical exchange with ALE engineering at every stage, from concept through sustainment.

Best-in-Class Technology

What ALE technology means for your program

A patented technology stack – including Safecore™ NTC, Zero Volt and solid-state hybrid architectures – translates directly into program-level outcomes.

Higher Energy Density

Longer mission endurance for the same pack mass, or the same endurance at lower mass – payload capacity, range and loiter improve directly.

Wide Temperature Operation

Mission readiness from -60 °C to +60 °C across arctic, desert, near-space and orbital environments, without added thermal conditioning.

Fast Charge with Cycle Life

Sustained operational tempo without sacrificing cell life – relevant to silent watch, ISR and high-cadence unmanned operations.

AS9100D Domestic Manufacturing

Audit-ready quality, full traceability from raw materials to finished pack and zero exposure to FOCI-restricted supply chains.

Chemistries: Silicon · LFP · LCO · LMFP · NMC · Graphite

Energy Spectrum

From watt-hours to megawatt-hours

ALE's product range spans seven orders of magnitude in energy delivered per pack.

Energy	Class	Typical applications
Wh	Watt-Hour	Wearables, dismounted soldier power, smart munitions, fuzes, expendable sensors, IoT and unattended ground sensors.
100 Wh – 1 kWh	Hundred-Watt-Hour	Handheld radios, portable comms, ISR sensors, conformal soldier batteries, small UAS, missile guidance electronics.
1 – 10 kWh	Kilowatt-Hour	Tactical UAS, small satellite buses, vehicle silent-watch packs, ISR drone payload power, hypersonic test vehicles.
10 – 100 kWh	Tens-of-Kilowatt-Hour	Group 3+ UAS, eVTOL, ground-vehicle hybrid drives, MIL-PRF-32565 6T packs, autonomous surface and undersea vehicles.
100 kWh – 1 MWh	Hundred-Kilowatt-Hour	Manned electric aircraft, hybrid-electric propulsion, mobile microgrids, forward operating base power.
1 MWh +	Megawatt-Hour	Shipboard energy reserves, directed-energy pulse buffers, ground-based laser and radar, large-scale stationary storage.

Products

Cell portfolio

These qualified cells are the building blocks. ALE engineering selects, configures and integrates them around your mission profile – treat this as a reference, not a menu. Custom cell development is available under NRE-funded programs.

18650 Cylindrical

Heritage form factor with the broadest qualification base. Available in nano-silicon, NMC, LCO and LFP chemistries from approximately 3 Ah to 3.5 Ah – including the world's highest energy density silicon Li-ion 18650 at 4 Ah and 350 Wh/kg.

SiliconNMCLCOLFP

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21700 Cylindrical

Higher-capacity cylindrical platform from 5 Ah to 5.7 Ah. More capacity per cell reduces parallel count, simplifying BMS architecture and improving pack-level energy density.

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Pouch Cells

Pouch cells in 2Ah, 7Ah, 14Ah and 19.5Ah capacities for a range of markets.

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Modules, Packs & Energy Storage Systems

Drop-in modules, packs and ESS with integrated BMS and thermal control, engineered and certified to your platform's requirements.

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Representative cell specifications

Model	Format	Chemistry	Capacity	Voltage	Highlights
18650NMC3500	18650	NMC	3.5 Ah	3.65 V	10.5 A continuous, 17.5 A pulse
18650NMC3000	18650	NMC	3.0 Ah	3.7 V	5C continuous, 10C pulse – power-dominant
21700NMC5500	21700	NMC	5.5 Ah	3.7 V	16.5 A continuous, 27.5 A pulse
21700NMC5000	21700	NMC	5.0 Ah	3.7 V	15 A continuous, 25 A pulse, -40 °C operation

Specifications are representative, from published datasheets. Detailed datasheets and qualification packages are available on request.

Compliance & Quality

Built to clear the defense compliance bar

Battery suppliers fail aerospace and defense source-selection most often not on technical performance, but on compliance and quality posture. ALE was designed from the ground up to clear it.

NDAA FY26 Section 842 – already aligned, not racing to remediate
Section 842 prohibits the Department of War from procuring advanced batteries from foreign entities of concern, with phased deadlines in 2028, 2029 and 2031. ALE's domestic ownership, U.S.-based production and redundant qualified domestic suppliers across cathode, anode, electrolyte, separator and current collector mean programs are aligned today, with full chain-of-custody documentation available.

AS9100D – Aerospace quality management system, certified.
ISO 9001:2015 – General quality management system, certified.
ISO 13485 – Medical device quality management system; supports defense medical and dual-use work.
ITAR Registered – Supports defense-controlled work and technical data handling.
UN 38.3 / UL 1642 – All cells pass transport-test and cell-level safety qualification.
AIAA S-144 – Compliance with the spaceflight lithium-ion battery safety standard.
DO-311A – Certification documentation pathway for airborne integration.
MIL-STD-810 – Qualification support for shock, vibration, temperature, altitude and humidity.

Trusted by the U.S. Space Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, Department of Energy, California Energy Commission and prime integrators across all services.

Why Buy Through Sensible Micro

The battery solution, faster and at lower risk

As an authorized ALE representative, Sensible Micro brings decades of OEM relationships, technical sales expertise and program insight. We identify the program fit, facilitate the technical exchange with ALE engineering and shepherd the engagement from initial requirement through purchase order.