Anduril to build $3.7bn Baltimore shipyard for US Navy submarine parts
Arsenal-2 will make Virginia-class components from 2030 and create 3,100 jobs. The Anduril deal lands days after co-founder Palmer Luckey joined the Pentagon’s Project Meridian.
Via TNW | Defence
Anduril will invest $3.7bn in a new shipyard near Baltimore to build parts for the US Navy’s Virginia-class submarines, the defence company said on Tuesday. The Navy has also awarded Anduril a contract worth up to $2.9bn, with payments tied to demonstrated production outcomes. Together, that is $6.6bn for the submarine industrial base.
President Donald Trump announced the project, called Arsenal-2, at the site in Sparrows Point, Maryland.
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