Anduril's Acquisition of Adranos Signals Silicon Valley's Move into Missile Motors.

Anduril Industries has acquired Adranos, a manufacturer of solid rocket motors, to become a merchant supplier of solid rocket motors to prime contractors delivering missiles, hypersonics, and other propulsion systems for the Department of Defense's most important programs. Adranos invented a proprietary aluminum-lithium alloy fuel called ALITEC to power solid rocket motors used in tactical missiles and space launch vehicles. The acquisition will help Anduril become a competitor in the solid rocket motor industry, which is facing heavy consolidation, and increase production rates at Adranos's solid rocket complex production facility in Mississippi.