Major investment in new radar production facility

 Echodyne, the radar platform company, has announced a major expansion in its advanced radar production capacity.

The $40M investment in a new 86,350-square-foot facility in Washington State, USA, will provide Echodyne with enough manufacturing and warehouse space to produce and ship more than 30,000 radars per year. The company’s modular manufacturing approach allows production capacity to flex to match varying demand across product lines as well as seamlessly introducing new product lines and capabilities.

The investment reflects Echodyne’s continued commitment to:

Enhancing security and safety as UxS become ubiquitous on the battlefield and in society in general;

Staying ahead of the accelerating demand in the U.S. and in Allied countries around the globe;

Strengthening America’s defence industrial base.

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 high-resolution radar surveillance of air and surface domains.

The company’s patented metamaterials electronically scanned array (MESA®) technology delivers unrivalled data fidelity – pinpoint accuracy, track stability, AI-based classification of threats, and well-defined high-speed application programming interfaces (APIs) for easy integration into systems of systems – in a compact, solid-state, commercially-exportable radar product.

Eben Frankenberg

Eben Frankenberg, chief executive officer of Echodyne, commented: “We are proud to be opening this new facility in Washington State, the location of our headquarters and a long-time global hub for tech innovation and advanced manufacturing.

“The extraordinary performance of MESA radar stands in marked contrast to the purposeful simplicity of its design, making high-fidelity radar broadly accessible for defence and civilian safety and security applications.

“This new investment in manufacturing capacity will allow us to supercharge production to meet the rapidly growing global demand for our products.”

Echodyne expects to continue to hire at a rapid pace to support its expanding manufacturing operations.