If the Iranian conflict has shown us anything, it's that Anduril's systems offer a much cheaper, equally capable alternative to the Primes. Given the need to speed up production, especially in the Navy area, this is a solid selection to do just that.
The project includes a $3.7 billion private capital investment from Anduril to scale a new shipyard in Baltimore County, Maryland, dubbed Arsenal-2, slated to start operations in 2030.
Anduril said the more than 2 million-square-foot facility will build components for the Virginia-class submarine. Some components will be manufactured at a 160,000-square-foot facility in Orange County, California.
I saw this and was going to post it in ~Construction_and_Engineering territory
Palmer Luckey
Anduril doing what the Primes couldn't - $3.7B of their own capital into Arsenal-2 to build Virginia-class parts. That's the opposite of cost-plus.
Navy submarine industrial base has been bottlenecked for years. If Palmer can actually get Baltimore online by 2030 and ship from a 2M sq ft facility, $2.9B is cheap for what they're fixing.
Great, more cold water diving!