Echodyne, a radar platform company, said it plans to invest $40 million in a new manufacturing facility in Washington.
The company's new 86,350-square-foot facility, which will employ more than 200 workers once it hits full capacity, will provide enough manufacturing and warehouse space to produce and ship more than 30,000 radars per year. Production is expected to begin this summer.
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Echodyne said its modular manufacturing approach allows production capacity to flex to match varying demand across product lines as well as introducing new product lines and capabilities. The investment backs Echodyne’s strategy of enhancing security and safety as uncrewed systems become ubiquitous on the battlefield and in society in general.
Counter-UAS (C-UAS), beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations for drone-as-first-responders (DFR), force protection, border security, and on-the-move (OTM) are among the applications and capabilities driving accelerating demand for radar surveillance of air and surface domains.
The company’s patented metamaterials electronically scanned array (MESA) technology delivers improved data fidelity and AI-based classification of threats, as well as high-speed application programming interfaces (APIs) for integration into systems of systems.
Expanded view of EchoShield radar.Echodyne
