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Hadrian, a defense-focused advanced manufacturing startup, announced a $1.37 billion Series D equity round on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026, valuing the company at about $7.9 billion. CEO Chris Power said at a media roundtable that Hadrian will grow headcount from 700 to 2,000 operators, engineers and technologists over the next year and open additional U.S. factories, alongside R&D buildout and new production capabilities. The company runs a "factories as a service" model built on its Opus AI platform, which it says trains factory technicians in 30 days or less. Prior steps include a $200 million Mesa, Arizona plant and an additive manufacturing division in January, a $2.4 billion Cherokee, Alabama submarine-parts facility partly Navy-funded, an Army contract worth up to $80 million in March, and a Lockheed Martin deployment in Grand Prairie, Texas.

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