The model of the company is to deliver more missile parts in a way that is faster and cheaper, reducing what traditionally takes years into weeks, months into days.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lukas Czinger, chief executive and co-founder of Divergent, said in a statement<\/a> that the new factory \u201crepresents the new industrial age at scale,\u201d increasing its current production eightfold.<\/p>\n Details on the building\u2019s construction, as well as its address and cost for the buildout, were not provided.\u00a0<\/p>\n In a release<\/a>, the company said the facility would add 1,000 local jobs. Nicole Ryan, a spokesperson with Divergent, said Thursday that staff have already begun moving into the facility, which they expect to come online by the end of the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Torrance, the company began with building car parts for luxury companies like Aston Martin, Bugatti and McLaren. In 2022, it pivoted toward aerospace and defense. Revenue quintupled in 2025<\/a>, markedly by a boost in aerospace and defense contracts that now make 80% of their income.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThree years ago, we said we\u2019re really going to take this time to grow in defense,\u201d Czinger said. \u201cToday it\u2019s really anchored by defense programs.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Divergent is currently valued at about $2.3 billion<\/a> and started the year with more than 500 employees. It holds contracts with dozens of aerospace and defense customers, including General Atomics, Lockheed Martin, RTX\u2019s Raytheon and Triumph Group.<\/p>\n Its largest contract<\/a> is with RTX\u2019s Raytheon division, its defense arm, to build the midbody structure for the Tomahawk cruise missile, a sea-to-surface rocket with a 1,000-pound warhead.\u00a0<\/p>\n Divergent is also under contract to build parts for Virginia-based CoAspire, as part of the Air Force\u2019s Family of Affordable Mass Missile<\/a> program, which is meant to quickly and cheaply replenish the U.S. stockpile after the military exhausted many of its munitions<\/a> during Operation Epic Fury earlier this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n It\u2019s the latest in a wave of space, weapons and tech companies to join \u201cSpace Beach,\u201d the 430-odd acres of industrial and warehouse space once used to build cargo planes outside Long Beach Airport.<\/p>\n In January, Anduril, an artificial-intelligence-backed weapons manufacturer, announced that it was building a $1 billion campus<\/a> nearby to make drones and other A.I.-enabled weapons. Voyager Technologies, a missile defense and spacecraft supplier, opened a 140,000-square-foot facility down the street less than two months later. Other companies like Rocket Lab, Relativity Space, Vast, JetZero, SpinLaunch, and True Anomaly have built or expanded their business here in the city.<\/p>\n It\u2019s an industry where successful businesses often curry favor with the federal government<\/a> and military, and local representatives are eager to attract defense tech firms to create high-paying jobs.<\/p>\n These companies are in tight competition to take advantage of a growing national defense budget \u2014 $895 million in 2025<\/a> from $816 million in 2023<\/a> \u2014 while taking advantage of the large pools of talent near existing research and military facilities like JPL in Pasadena, Mojave Air and Space port in Kern County and Vandenberg Space Force Base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Divergent, a Torrance-based defense company that contracts with Raytheon and the U.S. Air Force to mass produce missile…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-376253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376253","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=376253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/wvi0t2bw-939779-ngzy03tv-654418-dQggMV9p-1024x768.png\")
Divergent\u2019s new facility in Long Beach is expected to be 430,000 square feet. Rendering courtesy of Divergent.<\/p>\n