Trump Lands Historic Deal — It’s the Biggest Since WWII

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a shipyard project in Baltimore County, Maryland, that he described as the largest new shipyard in the United States since World War II.

Anduril Industries is putting $3.7 billion in private capital into a facility at Tradepoint Atlantic, inside the Sparrows Point complex. The U.S. Navy has awarded Anduril a contract of up to $2.9 billion to manufacture submarine components, with payments tied to demonstrated production. Together, the commitments total $6.6 billion aimed at the submarine industrial base.

The yard is planned to exceed 2 million square feet on a 187-acre site. Plans include a 1,200-foot graving dock, high-bay assembly halls, and reconfigurable production lines. Anduril says the site, called Arsenal-2, will produce complex components and large assemblies for Virginia-class attack submarines and send them to General Dynamics Electric Boat and Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding for final assembly.

Anduril has described the yard as a software-defined production system built around its ArsenalOS platform, which is meant to coordinate fabrication, inspection, and material movement. A separate 160,000-square-foot Anduril facility in Orange County, California, is intended to handle earlier prototyping and qualification work.

Project materials and state announcements say the shipyard is expected to create 3,100 direct jobs and support more than 11,000 indirect jobs. Maryland officials have described the total as more than 14,000 jobs, including more than 3,100 permanent positions, and have called the investment the largest single private commitment and largest job creator in the state in more than a decade.

Anduril projects $2 billion in annual economic output, including an estimated $312 million in wages. Permitting and site preparation are to begin immediately, with construction following required approvals. Initial operations are expected in 2030, with production scaling after that.

Sparrows Point previously hosted Bethlehem Steel and was tied to earlier U.S. shipbuilding. Baltimore-area yards produced the first Liberty ship during World War II, and Sparrows Point was historically known for tanker construction. Anduril says Arsenal-2 will return shipbuilding activity to the site.

“Today, we’re officially launching the construction of the largest new shipyard in the United States since World War II, there’s been nothing like what we’re doing today,” Trump said at the announcement.

“In a tremendous victory for our country and for the city of Baltimore, Anduril is investing $3.7 billion in a state-of-the-art shipyard that will be known forever as Arsenal-2,” he added. He said the yard would build “the next generation of American submarines, including autonomous subs, torpedo tubes and critical components for our cutting-edge Virginia-class attack submarines, the greatest and quietest ever built.”