Factories are all the fad in protection tech: Anduril introduced a billion-dollar “megafactory” in Ohio earlier this yr, whereas Saronic mentioned final month it’s planning its personal manufacturing unit to mass-produce autonomous warships.
Now, Anduril is contemplating constructing a manufacturing unit within the U.Okay. 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.Okay. and Europe, advised Bloomberg.
Anduril would use the manufacturing unit for drones and R&D and may 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 is predicated in California and is reportedly in talks to boost at a $28 billion valuation, didn’t reply to a request for remark.
