Anduril to invest another $1 billion in California with new Long Beach campus

Anduril Industries, 1 of the starring defence companies successful Southern California, volition grow successful Long Beach with a caller $1-billion analyzable adjacent the city’s airport.

Anduril is processing caller defence technologies that see drones, missiles, robotic submarines, and autonomous combatant jets. The Long Beach cognition volition see offices for decorator engineers and coders, on with laboratory abstraction and prototype manufacturing facilities, the institution said Thursday.

The caller installation volition beryllium built astatine Douglas Park, an concern parkland conscionable northbound of Long Beach Airport with a past of aerospace manufacturing. Anduril has leased much than 1 cardinal quadrate feet of onshore from existent property developer Sares Regis Group, which volition physique the caller campus.

Construction volition statesman by the mediate of the year, Anduril co-founder Matt Grimm said, and the archetypal gathering successful the analyzable volition unfastened by the extremity of 2027.

The field volition span astir 1.18 cardinal quadrate feet crossed six buildings, combining 750,000 quadrate feet of bureau abstraction with 435,000 quadrate feet of concern abstraction dedicated to probe and development.

“As we look astatine the adjacent 5 to 10 years of maturation for the company, we’re going to beryllium embarking connected a full clump of caller programs,” Grimm said. “That means we’re going to request to prosecute people.”

While galore businesses person complained astir the precocious level of taxes and regulations successful the authorities and threatened to move, astir find they request to enactment due to the fact that of its hard-to-beat web of companies and heavy excavation of experienced defence workers.

“The endowment exists astir Long Beach and the neighboring communities of folks who are conscionable world-class experts successful the aerospace sectors is truly, genuinely remarkable,” Grimm said.

Of course, that doesn’t mean everyone astatine the institution is blessed astir everything that happens successful the state. The company’s outspoken, billionaire co-founder, Luckey Palmer, precocious joined the statement astir a projected caller taxation connected billionaires.

The taxation proposal, which inactive needs to stitchery capable signatures earlier it tin adjacent get connected the ballot for a ballot successful November, is flawed, Palmer said, due to the fact that it would springiness institution founders immense taxation bills they could not spend to pay.

“It makes founder-led companies practically illegal,” helium posted connected X.

Anduril’s caller Long Beach installation volition employment astir 5,500 workers, with thousands much indirect jobs generated done construction, security, and supporting services, Grimm said.

“We’re going to request to person plan labs and instrumentality shops and trial labs and trial chambers and each the sorts of concern types of enactment facilities for these folks,” helium said.

The field is simply a 30-minute thrust from Anduril’s Costa Mesa office and astir 90 minutes from the company’s Capistrano trial site, the institution said, allowing teams to design, test, and iterate rapidly crossed locations.

Anduril has astir 7,000 employees successful 35 antithetic locations, including planetary offices, Grimm said. About fractional of the workers are based successful Southern California.

Anduril’s determination to travel to Long Beach marks a caller section successful the city’s relation arsenic a defence manufacture bastion that erstwhile included a naval basal and aerospace manufacturing, including the legendary B-17 bomber of World War II, and much precocious the C-17 Globemaster III subject transport, inactive wide successful use.

“We person a large past of gathering analyzable craft here, and we spot this arsenic an further measurement toward gathering the adjacent procreation of craft and technology,” Mayor Rex Richardson said. “Over the past fewer years, we’ve go 1 of the fastest-growing aerospace clusters successful America.”

Other ample caller players see spacecraft institution Rocket Lab, space-station builder Vast and aviation start-up JetZero, said Richardson, who favors the city’s caller nickname “Space Beach.”

“You tin liken them to the adjacent procreation of the Boeings and the Northrup Grummans,” helium said of caller aerospace companies successful town.

In 2025 Anduril announced it would walk $1 cardinal to erect its archetypal “Arsenal” manufacturing works successful Columbus, Ohio.

Arsenal-1 volition usage a communal acceptable of commercialized manufacturing tooling, machinery, and processes for each benignant of autonomous conveyance that Anduril produces, the institution said. It is acceptable to unfastened this year.