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Anduril, a technology start-up that designs autonomous systems and weapons for government agencies and the military, plans to build a $1 billion factory in Columbus, Ohio, the company said on Thursday.
It said the factory, called Arsenal-1 and described as a “hyperscale” plant, would bring more than 4,000 job to Ohio and eventually produce tens of thousands of autonomous systems and weapons each year.
“We will be creating with our partners in Ohio something that does not currently exist” at such a scale, Anduril’s chief strategy officer, Chris Brose, said in a briefing with reporters. The company has worked closely with state officials on the project and has secured tax breaks to locate it in Columbus.
Anduril, based in Costa Mesa, Calif., is among a new wave defense start-ups working to build autonomous systems and weapons for the military using the latest artificial intelligence technologies. They includes flying drones, underwater vessels and surveillance towers that could be deployed along national borders or on a battlefield.
As A.I. technology began to mature at Silicon Valley, companies like Google in the late 2010s and some tech executives, workers and venture capitalists kept the Pentagon at arm’s length. But others, including Anduril and its co-founder Palmer Luckey, a former Facebook executive, began building A.I. start-ups specifically for the defense market. . .
>Anduril, a technology start-up that designs autonomous systems and weapons for government agencies and the military, plans to build a $1 billion factory in Columbus, Ohio, the company said on Thursday.
>It said the factory, called Arsenal-1 and described as a “hyperscale” plant, would bring more than 4,000 job to Ohio and eventually produce tens of thousands of autonomous systems and weapons each year.
>“We will be creating with our partners in Ohio something that does not currently exist” at such a scale, Anduril’s chief strategy officer, Chris Brose, said in a briefing with reporters. The company has worked closely with state officials on the project and has secured tax breaks to locate it in Columbus.
>Anduril, based in Costa Mesa, Calif., is among a new wave defense start-ups working to build autonomous systems and weapons for the military using the latest artificial intelligence technologies. They includes flying drones, underwater vessels and surveillance towers that could be deployed along national borders or on a battlefield.
>As A.I. technology began to mature at Silicon Valley, companies like Google in the late 2010s and some tech executives, workers and venture capitalists kept the Pentagon at arm’s length. But others, including Anduril and its co-founder Palmer Luckey, a former Facebook executive, began building A.I. start-ups specifically for the defense market.
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[Source](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/technology/anduril-factory-columbus-ohio.html)
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