Defense manufacturer Anduril Industries announced a $1 billion investment to establish a second major Southern California campus in Long Beach and Lakewood.
Anduril expects the campus to support approximately 5,500 direct jobs at full capacity, with thousands more generated through construction, security and supporting services.
Scheduled to come online in mid-2027, it will span approximately 1.18 million square feet across six buildings and include lab space, prototype manufacturing and other areas for engineers and software developers.
"Long Beach has long been a naval and manufacturing city, with a history of building complex aircraft," Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson said. "We are proud to welcome Anduril to Space Beach."
Anduril stated that software engineers at the campus will work alongside hardware engineers, flight test teams will collaborate directly with research and development specialists and teams will have direct access to machine shops, testing facilities and fabrication equipment on site.
The new campus is located approximately 30 minutes from Anduril’s Costa Mesa headquarters and about 90 minutes from the company’s Capistrano test site. It builds on Anduril’s broader effort to establish industrial capacity at scale, including Arsenal‑1 — the company’s hyperscale manufacturing facility in Ohio — and additional production sites across the U.S. and internationally.
Long Beach has played a central role in U.S. defense and industrial history for more than a century. The city became the Pacific Fleet’s home port in 1919 and, during World War II, was home to the nation’s largest aircraft production facility, where tens of thousands of workers built thousands of aircraft.
