# Anduril Expands Ohio Defense Production

Anduril founder and CEO Palmer Luckey says the defense technology company intends to go public, though it has not announced an IPO timeline. Employee tender offers reportedly valued Anduril at $90 billion in October 2026, up from a $61 billion Series H valuation in May. The company is also planning its Arsenal-1 manufacturing facility in Ohio and has received recent Army contract awards, including work on the Next-Generation Command and Control common data layer and a portion of Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node production orders. For procurement professionals, the combination of new awards and planned manufacturing expansion is relevant to assessing supplier capacity and competition for defense technology work; the IPO announcement itself does not establish a procurement change or schedule.

- The Army’s NGC2 award is valued at up to **$1.8 billion** over five years and focuses on a common data layer across operational units.
- September 2026 TITAN production orders totaled **$192 million**; Anduril received a portion alongside Palantir.
- Contracting teams and competing suppliers can use the planned Ohio facility and recent awards as context when evaluating Anduril’s production and delivery capacity. No facility opening date or IPO timeline is specified.

**Jurisdictions:** federal
**Industries:** Defense & Military, Information Technology
**Topics:** Digital Infrastructure
**Published:** October 21, 2026

### Government Entities
- U.S. Army (Army)
- U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)

### Vendors
- Anduril Industries (Awardee; recipient of Army contract awards)
- Palantir (Recipient of a portion of the TITAN production orders)

### Key Quotes
> As we continue working on building a company that has the capacity to scale into the largest problems for the national security community, we thought it was really important to shore up the balance sheet and make sure we have the ability to deploy capital into these manufacturing and production problem sets that we’re working on.
> — Trae Stephens, Executive Chairman of Anduril Industries

### Sources
- [Palmer Luckey: Anduril to Go Public](https://www.govconwire.com/articles/palmer-luckey-anduril-publicly-traded-company) - GovCon Wire