Anduril Moves From Startup to Production Mode for US Military

Anduril Industries Inc., Silicon Valley’s top-valued defense tech startup, is shifting from startup mode to expanding production of AI and autonomous weapons systems for the military.

Anduril is transitioning from being an “innovative” startup to producing weapons at scale this summer at a new Ohio facility, Anduril co-founder and Executive Chairman Trae Stephens said Thursday at the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco.

Anduril is building Arsenal-1, a 5 million-square-foot defense industrial park to create production capacity in advance of orders from the US military and its allies. The Fury, Anduril’s combat aircraft, will be the first weapon the ...