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Hadrian has opened a new advanced manufacturing facility in Cherokee, Alabama, positioning the company as a central player in rebuilding the U.S. submarine industrial base. The $2.4 billion public-private project, structured with more than $1.5 billion in private capital and $900 million in Navy funding, is dedicated to supplying components for Columbia- and Virginia-class submarines.
The Cherokee plant, known as Factory 4, will mass-produce parts, assemblies, and finished products identified as key drivers of submarine build schedules, with full-rate production for the first phase targeted within 24 months of contract award. The facility, converted from a 2.2 million-square-foot former railcar plant, is expected to support up to 1,000 jobs and relieve labor bottlenecks by using Hadrian’s Opus automation platform to bring relatively inexperienced workers to full productivity in about 30 days.
Factory 4 is one of three Hadrian sites focused on maritime systems, with an additional Foundry of the Future planned to concentrate on castings and forgings critical to shipbuilding. The launch aligns Hadrian directly with the Administration’s Golden Fleet initiative and the President’s Executive Order on Maritime Dominance, both aimed at accelerating domestic shipbuilding and submarine capacity.
Hadrian founder and CEO Chris Power framed the factory as the company’s executional response to the Navy’s demand for private-sector capacity to deter rising security threats. With this opening, Hadrian now operates four facilities totaling roughly 2.85 million square feet across California, Arizona, and Alabama, and is pursuing further expansion from critical components to complete products and assemblies.
Senior defense and congressional leaders, including the Secretary of the Navy and members of the Alabama and Mississippi delegations, highlighted the facility’s strategic role in strengthening the maritime industrial base and reshoring advanced manufacturing. For Hadrian, the long-term Navy partnership enhances revenue visibility, entrenches the company in core defense supply chains, and expands its operational footprint in a high-barrier, government-backed growth market.