Echodyne to Open Major New Manufacturing Facility to Meet Rapidly Growing Global Demand
- $40M investment in 86,350-square-foot facility in Washington State, USA
- Annual production capacity of >30,000 radars across product lines
- More than 200 employees at full capacity
- Start of production in summer 2026
Echodyne, the radar platform company, announces a major near-term expansion in its advanced radar production capacity.
Echodyne’s new 86,350-square-foot facility will provide 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 and to introduce new product lines and capabilities seamlessly. The investment reflects Echodyne’s continued commitment to enhancing security and safety as UxS becomes ubiquitous on the battlefield and in society at large, staying ahead of the accelerating demand in the US and Allied countries worldwide, and strengthening America’s defense 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 unrivaled data fidelity – pinpoint accuracy, track stability, AI-based threat classification, 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, the CEO 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 its purposeful simplicity, making high-fidelity radar broadly accessible for defense 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.”