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Area Development - Site Selection, Facility Planning and Workforce Development

Anduril Industries Plans Pickaway County, Ohio, Manufacturing Operations

01/21/2025
Defense technology company Anduril Industries plans to establish manufacturing operations in Pickaway County, Ohio. The more than $900 million project is expected to create over 4,000 jobs by 2035.

The investment will include the construction of a new five-million-square-foot facility, named Arsenal-1 and located on 500 acres near Rickenbacker International Airport, which will manufacture military drones and autonomous air vehicles. Production is scheduled to begin in July 2026.

“Arsenal-1 represents a significant step forward in how we build the autonomous systems and weapons our nation and allies need, leveraging Ohio’s world-class workforce, robust infrastructure, and scalable, software-driven manufacturing to set a new standard for securing the future of defense,” said Anduril Industries CEO Brian Schimpf. “We are ready to break ground and get to work building the capabilities that will strengthen America’s industrial base and national security for years to come.”

The project will pursue a Job Creation Tax Credit from the Ohio Department of Development at an upcoming Tax Credit Authority meeting. The company will also request $70 million from the All Ohio Future Fund at an upcoming Controlling Board meeting.

“You can’t outsource national security, and today, Ohio is sending a message to the world: Companies that deliver the most complex, challenging, and sophisticated solutions for the defense of the United States of America will find no better home than right here in the Heart of it All," noted JobsOhio President and CEO J.P. Nauseef. “The intersection of advanced manufacturing, military and defense, technology, innovation, and the nation’s hardest-working and highly skilled workers creates the ideal environment for these companies to achieve their goals of making our country safer and stronger. Best of all, Anduril will be just down the road to the military customer at Wright Patterson Air Force Base - where the Wright Brothers learned to fly more than 100 years ago! As the United States reshores this capability and fundamentally changes the way we develop solutions to safeguard our nation, Ohio is the place that gets it done better, faster and more affordably than anywhere else.”

JobsOhio plans to support the project with a JobsOhio Grant and will disclose the amount of funding after the agreements have been signed. JobsOhio will also provide Anduril with Talent Acquisition Services to work with the company to attract, develop, and retain the skilled workforce the company requires.

“This project will diversify our economy, strengthen our nation, create thousands of terrific jobs, and immediately establish the Columbus Region as a center of defense-technology and manufacturing,” added Kenny McDonald, President and CEO of One Columbus. “The bold leadership of the DeWine-Husted Administration, JobsOhio, and Pickaway County were pivotal in making this project a reality.”

Anduril Industries, Inc. is an American defense technology company that specializes in autonomous systems. The company’s major products include unmanned aerial systems (UAS) & counter-UAS (CUAS), semi-portable autonomous surveillance systems, and networked command and control software.

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