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Defense equipment manufacturing company Anduril has announced plans to build a massive facility in the Buckeye Statepromising that the site will be able to quickly deliver products for the United States and its allies.
Some of the defense company products include autonomous aircraft and underwater vehicles.
“Anduril, a leader in the manufacturing of autonomous systems and weapons, today announced that it has selected Columbus, Ohio, as the site for Arsenal-1, its first large-scale manufacturing facility,” said the company in a message published on its website.
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“Arsenal-1 will redefine the scale and speed at which autonomous systems and weapons can be produced for the United States and its allies and partners. This is a monumental and essential step toward rebuilding the industrial base defense, strengthening America’s warfighting capabilities and improving deterrence in the face of growing international threats,” Anduril continued.
The company said it would invest nearly $1 billion of its own funds in the project.
The location of the site next to the Rickenbacker Airport provides access to two 12,000-foot runways, according to Anduril.
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The Altius-600 autonomous UAS at Anduril headquarters in Costa Mesa, California, United States, Thursday, December 14, 2023. (Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“At full scale, the facility will span 5 million square feet and produce tens of thousands of military systems per year. Looking ahead, with over 500 acres available for future expansion, Arsenal-1 is poised for long-term scalability and will manufacture and produce most of Anduril’s weapons, sensors and autonomous systems at full capacity,” said the company.
“Pending approvals, construction of the facility will begin immediately and the first products will be manufactured from July 2026,” Anduril noted.
The company already has facilities in the United States and a factory in Australia.
“Arsenal-1 in Ohio will join Anduril’s other factories, including our solid rocket motor factory in Mississippi, our robotic submarine factory in Rhode Island, our launched effects factory in Georgia, our XL-AUV factory in Australia and our production facilities in California,” the statement said. organization noted.
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Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril Industries, during an interview on “The Circuit with Emily Chang” at Anduril headquarters in Costa Mesa, Calif., Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Anduril founder Palmer Luckey is the “designer of the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset, and the founder of Oculus VR, acquired by Facebook in 2014 for $2.3 billion,” according to his biography published on the company’s website.
The company emphasizes the importance of software.
“The next generation of military technology will depend less on advances in shipbuilding and aircraft design than on advances in software engineering and computing,” states the Anduril website. “Unlike traditional defense contractors who focus primarily on hardware, Anduril’s core system is Lattice OS, an autonomous sensemaking and command and control platform that serves as the central platform for our suite capabilities.”
