Factories are all the fad in protection tech: Anduril introduced a billion-dollar “megafactory” in Ohio earlier this yr, whereas Saronic stated final month it’s planning its personal manufacturing facility to mass-produce autonomous warships.
Now, Anduril is contemplating constructing a manufacturing facility within the U.Ok. because it expands past U.S. protection contracts.
“If we get sufficient orders, completely we’re planning to open a facility within the UK,” Wealthy Drake, Anduril’s normal supervisor for U.Ok. and Europe, instructed Bloomberg.
Anduril would use the manufacturing facility for drones and R&D and would possibly select someplace close to Oxford and Cambridge, Sifted reported earlier.
European protection budgets are breaking information because the U.S. winds down help to Ukraine, so there’s loads of alternatives.
Anduril, which relies in California and is reportedly in talks to lift at a $28 billion valuation, didn’t reply to a request for remark.
