Overview
- President Donald Trump and Anduril unveiled the Arsenal‑2 project Tuesday at Sparrows Point, with Anduril committing $3.7 billion and the Navy committing up to $2.9 billion in outcome‑based purchases.
- Anduril will build a roughly 2‑million‑square‑foot shipyard to make torpedo tubes and other critical Virginia‑class components, with permitting and site work said to begin immediately and initial operations targeted around 2030.
- The company has opened a 160,000‑square‑foot prototype facility in Orange County, California, to validate manufacturing processes and quality controls before scaling work to Maryland.
- Officials say Arsenal‑2 could add about 15 percent to Virginia‑class production capacity and create roughly 3,100 direct jobs plus about 11,000 indirect jobs, while Maryland and Baltimore County have offered incentives that could total up to about 13% of the private investment.
- Key conditions remain unresolved, including Navy certification of components, formal terms for a reported 40% government stake in the shipyard subsidiary, state and local approvals for incentives, and multi‑year federal budget funding tied to future Navy purchases.