{"id":151335,"date":"2026-01-27T08:53:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/151335\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T08:53:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:53:37","slug":"drone-maker-anduril-to-expand-in-long-beach-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/151335\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone maker Anduril to expand in Long Beach, California"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This story was originally published on Manufacturing Dive<\/a>. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Manufacturing Dive newsletter<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Anduril Industries, a maker of defense drones and technology, plans to build a second campus<\/a> in Southern California focused on research and development, the Costa Mesa-based company said Thursday.<\/p>\n

The new Long Beach location will support 5,500 jobs across six buildings with over 1 million square feet of office and industrial space, according to a news release.\u00a0It is expected to be ready by mid-2027.<\/p>\n

The expansion is estimated to surpass $1 billion, the Los Angeles Times<\/a>\u00a0reported. Anduril and the Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce declined to return messages about the project\u2019s cost.<\/p>\n

This is the second major investment from Anduril in the past year. The defense technology company last January agreed to spend nearly $1 billion building its Arsenal-1 manufacturing facility<\/a> in Pickaway County, Ohio, focused on autonomous weapons systems. Production is expected to begin there in July.<\/p>\n

Anduril said its Long Beach campus will support the way it builds products by being closer to other key facilities. The site is about a 30-minute drive from Anduril\u2019s Costa Mesa headquarters and 90 minutes from the company\u2019s Capistrano test site, allowing engineers, R&D specialists and flight test teams to \u201cdesign, test, and iterate quickly across locations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anduril chose to continue growing in Southern California, in part, to be near its suppliers and the region\u2019s workforce. Long Beach has evolved from a historic U.S. Navy hub, previously anchored by a naval shipyard that closed in the late 1990s<\/a>, into what some are calling \u201cSpace Beach,\u201d due to the growing number of space and defense companies in the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, the next generation of companies is choosing to build and hire here again,\u201d Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson said in a statement. \u201cWe look forward to working with our world-class education and workforce partners to prepare local talent to meet this demand.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anduril\u2019s new campus will have 750,000 square feet of office space and 435,000 square feet of industrial space for R&D to support its growing industrial capacity, according to a news release.\u00a0Earlier this month, Anduril secured a $23.9 million contract<\/a> to build more than 600 drones for the U.S. Marine Corps, after making 300 for another customer in recent months.<\/p>\n

In addition to its manufacturing facility under construction in Ohio, the company has key U.S. production sites in Rhode Island<\/a>, Georgia<\/a> and Mississippi<\/a>. It also has a growing international presence, with offices in the U.K.<\/a> and Australia<\/a>, as well as plans to expand into Japan<\/a> and South Korea<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This story was originally published on Manufacturing Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[72471,74774,131,133,132,45165,1009],"class_list":["post-151335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-anduril-industries","tag-industrial-space","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-research-and-development","tag-southern-california"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}