Divergent Technologies has opened a 430,000-square-foot factory in Long Beach, California, to expand missile hardware production and take on Tomahawk cruise missile structure work for RTX’s Raytheon as a second-source supplier.
The site, called Factory 2, will house 64 Monolith One metal printers and is designed to output more than 30,000 missile airframes or 60,000 warhead casings a year, depending on Pentagon demand. Divergent says the platform has already produced initial test units and targets production start in the first half of next year.
The buildout tracks the Pentagon’s push to raise missile capacity and gives Divergent a larger defense manufacturing base with room to shift into commercial work if demand changes.