Anduril Industries has selected a site near Rickenbacker International Airport in Columbus, Ohio, to house a planned 5 million sq ft unmanned vehicle production

Anduril Industries plans to invest more than $900 million to build the facility on 500 acres in Pickaway County near Rickenbacker International Airport.

Located at Rickenbacker International airport near Columbus, Anduril's "Arsenal-1" facility will be the company's first attempt at reaching what it calls "hyper-scale" production capacity of delivering tens of thousands of autonomous weapon systems annually.

A "hearty Ohio breakfast" led a defense contractor to decided to build a 5-million-square-foot weapons factory in Pickaway County.

Dubbed "Arsenal-1," the $1 billion Pickaway County factory will be the largest job-creation project in Ohio history, state officials say.

Wright-Patt, home to some 38,000 military and civilian employees, is not just Ohio’s largest single-site employer. The large base also is the heart of Air Force research and materiel missions, designing and crafting future weapons and systems while simultaneously overseeing the maintenance of the service’s existing fleet.