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87 articlesAnduril pays staff engineers $517K. Honeywell's spinoff starts from scratch
Honeywell Aerospace spins off as HONA in June 2026, creating a standalone S&P 500 pure-play aerospace company. This analysis covers the talent implications: workforce restructuring, executive team buildout, defense hiring pressure, competitive dynamics with RTX and General Dynamics, and how Anduril'
Anduril's Long Beach Campus Will Employ 5,500 to Build Weapons That Never Existed 26 Months Ago
Anduril Industries is investing $1 billion in a 1.18-million-square-foot campus in Long Beach and Lakewood, California, set to open by mid-2027 and employ roughly 5,500 people. The facility at Douglas Park will split office and industrial space to support mass production of autonomous weapons system
Northrop Grumman is hiring engineers who speak isotope and propellant in the same breath
DARPA awarded $3.37M to Morgan State University for the SYMPHONEE project, developing radiovoltaic devices using Strontium-90 to power sensors for decades without batteries. Northrop Grumman leads simulation and survivability analysis, linking nuclear power systems with its solid-rocket motor scale-
Anduril Is the Only Company Building Both the Drone and the Network That Commands It — and 138 Job Postings in Seven Days Prove It
Anduril wins the U.S. Army's NGC2 common data layer contract, positioning its Lattice platform at the core of next-gen command and control. The move signals a shift from prototyping to continuous delivery, with implications for military-AI integration and defense manufacturing at scale.
Anduril Built a Submarine Factory 18 Months Before It Had a Contract
Anduril opened a 7,400-square-metre submarine factory in Sydney in October 2025, 18 months before the Royal Australian Navy awarded the Ghost Shark XL-AUV contract. The first autonomous underwater vehicle rolled off the line just 51 days after the deal was signed. The facility draws on over 40 Austr
A Staff Spacecraft Systems Engineer in Irvine Can Earn $260,000. The Entry-Level Home Below Them Costs $1.2M.
Turion Space raised $75M in Series B funding to scale spacecraft production from 8 to 40 units annually, backed by Washington Harbour Partners and others. The company builds maneuverable DROID satellites for space domain awareness and is part of the U.S. Space Force’s $1.8B Andromeda program.
The Hardest Job at Anduril Isn't Building Autonomous Weapons. It's Legally Sending Them Abroad.
Anduril Industries is in talks with Israeli officials to establish its first permanent engineering and production hub outside the U.S. The move would support its IPO ambitions, ease ITAR export-control friction, and enable co-development with Israeli defense firms. With a major Air Force CCA product
Anduril's FQ-44 Went From Prototype to Production Faster Than Any Fighter in 50 Years — and Ohio Is Hiring 4,000 to Build It
The U.S. Air Force awarded simultaneous production contracts to General Atomics and Anduril Industries for the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, marking a dual-selection approach unprecedented in modern fighter procurement. The program decouples airframes from autonomy software, with six compan
Skydio Pledged $3.5 Billion to Build Drones in America. Its Job Board Shows the Real Product Is AI.
On April 24, 2026, Skydio pledged $3.5 billion to U.S. manufacturing, supply chain development, and R&D over five years — a scale no American drone company has attempted. The investment will create over 2,000 direct jobs and support 3,000 more across U.S. suppliers, with over $1 billion flowing to d
Thales added 8,800 people last year and still wasn't done. Now it wants 9,000 more — and the roles reveal what Europe is building
Thales plans to hire over 9,000 people globally in 2026, accelerating its annual recruitment amid surging defence demand. The push spans engineering, industrial, and corporate roles across 11 countries, with France absorbing the largest share. A new Renault-Thales drone pact targets 1,000 loitering
Anduril Added 160 Roles in Seven Days to Build AI Drone Wingmen the Air Force Just Put Into Production
On June 17, 2026, the U.S. Air Force awarded Anduril Industries and General Atomics production contracts for Collaborative Combat Aircraft, advancing semi-autonomous drone wingmen into full-scale manufacturing. The decision, four months ahead of schedule, signals a historic shift in defense procurem
SpaceX Spent $15 Billion on Starship and Flew Five Flights. Now It's Hiring the Engineers Who Keep Factories From Breaking.
SpaceX's Starship program faces a critical bottleneck: scaling factory production to meet ambitious launch cadence targets. While Falcon 9 achieves rapid reuse, Starship's complexity demands new industrial engineering roles focused on equipment reliability, maintenance, and high-rate manufacturing i
The Air Force Just Awarded Its First Fighter Contract to a New Company Since the 1970s. Anduril's Hiring Data Shows How Hard It Will Be to Deliver.
The U.S. Air Force awarded production contracts to Anduril Industries and General Atomics for the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, marking the first time since the 1970s a new company has won a fighter aircraft program. Anduril's FQ-44A will enter production alongside General Atomics' FQ-42A,
Anduril's factories can retool in days. The reason is a software stack it built from scratch — and is still hiring to finish.
ArsenalOS is Anduril Industries' proprietary digital-manufacturing platform designed to unify engineering design and factory-floor execution. It powers major facilities like Arsenal-1 in Ohio and Quonset Point in Rhode Island, enabling scalable production of autonomous systems through software-defin
Anduril's Rhode Island Factory Will Build 200 Underwater Drones a Year — and It's Hiring 160 People This Week to Do It
Anduril Industries is opening a major AUV production facility at Quonset Point, Rhode Island, targeting 200 autonomous underwater vehicles per year and creating over 100 jobs. Backed by an $18.6M Navy contract and a surging defense budget for autonomy, the move signals a shift from prototyping to ma
A Ground-Station Startup in Torrance Is Paying $220,000 for Security Engineers Who Understand Both Kubernetes and TS/SCI Clearances — and 96 People Applied in Two Days
Northwood Space secured $149.8M in funding and a U.S. Space Force contract to modernize satellite ground infrastructure with its Portal phased-array system, scaling production and global deployment.
Anduril doubled its valuation to $61 billion — and 157 new job postings in one week show where the money is going
Anduril Industries raised $5B in Series H funding, doubling its valuation to $61B and accelerating production of autonomous defense systems. With dual CCA contracts awarded alongside General Atomics, demand surges for software engineers and C2 integrators. Ohio emerges as a hub for drone-defense man
The Air Force Split the Drone Into a Body and a Brain. Two Companies Are Hiring for the Same Engineers.
The U.S. Army awarded Anduril Industries a $20 billion enterprise contract for its AI-driven Lattice platform to serve as the central counter-drone command-and-control backbone. The deal consolidates over 120 procurement actions, accelerates software-driven defense acquisition, and drives major expa
The Pentagon needs phased-array satellites. CesiumAstro just got $470M to build them — and it's hiring in Austin at $160,515 a year.
CesiumAstro closed $470M in Series C financing, including a record $200M EXIM debt facility, to scale production of software-defined phased-array satellites. The company also acquired AI startup Vidrovr to add onboard machine learning for autonomous space-based signal processing.
Anduril Added 171 Roles This Week. True Anomaly Added 13 — and the 13 May Matter More.
True Anomaly raised $650M in a Series D round valuing the defense space startup at $2.2B. The company builds Jackal satellites and Mosaic software for U.S. military space operations, including the Pentagon's Golden Dome interceptor program. With plans to scale manufacturing and headcount, True Anoma
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