Anduril, along with other Tolkien-named companies like Palantir andSauron, represent a new kind of Silicon Valley.
One thats focused on America and willing to manufacture a massive amount of weapons for it.
The Hawaiin shirt-wearing arms dealer has been busy.
The Anduril Roadrunner-M vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) operator-supervised autonomous air vehicle (AAV) at Anduril’s headquarters in Costa Mesa, California, US, on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023.© Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images
A month before that it got a$249 million contractto deliver 500 of its Roadrunner-Ms to the Pentagon.
U.S. Special Operations Command isalready using the Roadrunner.
In 2022, SOCOM and Anduril announced an almost$1 billion contract.
The hyperscale factory will go up near the Rickenbacker International Airport.
Itll join the extant list of Anduril factories in Rhode Island, Mississippi, Georgia, and Australia.
Anduril was already in Ohio.
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