Jan 23, 2026
Anduril Industries, one of the leading defense companies in Southern California, will expand in Long Beach with a new $1-billion complex near the city’s airport, as reported by Yahoo Finance. The company, which develops drones, missiles, robotic submarines, and autonomous fighter jets, stated the Long Beach operation will include offices for designer engineers and coders, along with lab space and prototype manufacturing facilities.
The new facility will be built at Douglas Park, an industrial park just north of Long Beach Airport with a history of aerospace manufacturing. Anduril has leased more than 1 million square feet of land from real estate developer Sares Regis Group, which will build the new campus.
Construction will begin by the middle of the year, Anduril co-founder Matt Grimm said, and the first building in the complex will open by the end of 2027. The campus will span approximately 1.18 million square feet across six buildings, combining 750,000 square feet of office space with 435,000 square feet of industrial space dedicated to research and development.
“As we look at the next five to 10 years of growth for the company, we’re going to be embarking on a whole bunch of new programs,” Grimm said. “That means we’re going to need to hire people.” He noted the facility will employ about 5,500 workers, with thousands more indirect jobs generated through construction, security, and supporting services.
“We’re going to need to have design labs and machine shops and test labs and test chambers and all the sorts of industrial types of support facilities for these folks,” he said. Grimm cited California’s deep pool of experienced defense workers as a key reason for the expansion. “The talent exists around Long Beach and the neighboring communities of folks who are just world-class experts in the aerospace sectors is truly, truly remarkable,” he said.
However, the company’s co-founder, Luckey Palmer, recently criticized a proposed new tax on billionaires in the state. Palmer said the proposal, which still needs signatures to get on the ballot for a vote in November, is flawed because it would give company founders huge tax bills they could not afford to pay. “It makes founder-led companies practically illegal,” he posted on X.