作者：Jen Judson和Courtney McBride Anduril Industries以制造无人机和自动驾驶飞机而闻名，正在投资37亿美元在马里兰州建造一座大型新造船设施，此举将提高美国海军的核动力潜艇产量。
By Jen Judson and Courtney McBride Anduril Industries, known for building drones and autonomous aircraft, is investing $3.7 billion to build a massive new shipbuilding facility in Maryland, a move that will enhance the US Navy’s nuclear-powered submarine production.
据州长韦斯·摩尔办公室称，位于巴尔的摩郊外斯帕罗斯角的制造综合体全面投入运营后将雇用约3，100名员工。该工厂预计将于2030年开始运营，并于次年全面投产。
The manufacturing complex at Sparrows Point, outside Baltimore, will employ about 3,100 people when fully operational, according to Governor Wes Moore’s office. The facility is expected to begin operations in 2030 and reach full production the following year.
该项目将代表Anduril向传统造船业的重大扩张，Anduril是一家由Palmer Luckey共同创立的私人控股国防公司，以销售自动驾驶飞机、无人机、传感器和软件而闻名。
The project would represent a major expansion into traditional shipbuilding for Anduril, the privately held defense company co-founded by Palmer Luckey that built its reputation selling autonomous aircraft, drones, sensors and software.
安杜里尔总裁兼首席战略官克里斯·布罗斯周二告诉记者，新设施旨在扩大现有的造船能力，并“提供了一个真正重新构想造船厂如何建造以及如何完成这项工作的机会”。
The new facility is intended to augment existing shipbuilding capacity and presents “an opportunity to really reimagine how a shipyard is built and how this work is done,” Anduril President and Chief Strategy Officer Chris Brose told reporters Tuesday.
唐纳德·特朗普总统预计将出席安杜里尔宣布位于斯帕罗角的阿森纳2号新制造项目，该工厂曾经是伯利恒钢铁厂的所在地。
President Donald Trump is expected to attend Anduril’s announcement of the new manufacturing effort at Arsenal 2 at Sparrows Point, which was once home to a Bethlehem Steel mill.
摩尔说，他告诉安杜里尔，该公司“创造了为我们赢得第二次世界大战的钢铁--你们都可以创造为我们赢得未来战争的潜艇和船只”。
That company “created the steel that won us World War II — you all can create the subs and the ships that can win us wars of the future,” Moore said he told Anduril.
Anduril还开发了自主水下航行器Dive-XL和Dive-LD，伊朗上个月初在霍尔木兹海峡捕获了其中一辆。
Anduril has also developed autonomous undersea vehicles, the Dive-XL and Dive-LD, one of which Iran captured early last month in the Strait of Hormuz.
该新项目还将一家非常规国防承包商纳入五角大楼战略上最重要、也是最麻烦的计划之一。
The new project also puts an unconventional defense contractor into one of the Pentagon’s most strategically important — and troubled — programs.
上周，国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯选择拉基、另一家主要国防承包商埃隆·马斯克以及前众议院议长纽特·金里奇领导“子午线计划”，这是一项为期120天的计划，旨在研究战争和武器的未来。此前报道：科技界亿万富翁马斯克与卢基将参与决定未来战争形态此前报道：监督机构称美国攻击型潜艇维修延误导致数十亿美元损失美国海军计划从2030年代初起，将每年建造的弗吉尼亚级攻击型潜艇数量提升至两艘，并增建一艘哥伦比亚级弹道导弹核潜艇——但当前的工业基础尚难以满足这一生产节奏。目前海军年均仅能建造一艘潜艇。自冷战结束以来，美国潜艇制造产业规模已缩减了60%。
Last week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth chose Luckey, Elon Musk — another major defense contractor — as well as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to lead Project Meridian, a 120-day plan to study the future of warfare and weaponry. Earlier: Tech Billionaires Musk, Luckey Get Say in Future of Warfare Earlier: US Attack Submarine Repair Delays Cost Billions, Watchdog Says The Navy is trying to expand annual submarine production to two Virginia-class attack subs and one Columbia-class ballistic missile vessel, starting in the early 2030s — a pace the existing industrial base has struggled to achieve. The output is currently roughly one per year. The service has experienced a 60% decline in the submarine manufacturing base since the end of the Cold War.
为缓解产能压力，海军正逐步将部分制造任务从通用动力公司的电动船厂以及亨廷顿·英格尔斯工业公司的纽波特纽斯造船厂转移出去。这两家企业是美国核潜艇的主要建造商。海军推行的“战略外包”模式允许其他制造商生产相关模块与零部件，随后运送至上述主造船厂，从而让后者的工人与设施能专注于潜艇的最终组装工作。
The Navy has increasingly sought to move some of that work away from General Dynamics Corp.’s Electric Boat and Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc.’s Newport News Shipbuilding, the two yards that assemble the nation’s nuclear-powered submarines. The approach that the service calls strategic outsourcing allows for other manufacturers to construct modules and components that are shipped to the primary yards, freeing their workers and facilities to concentrate on final submarine construction.
根据协议，海军方面将依据实际生产表现支付最高29亿美元的款项，用于采购该工厂生产的潜艇部件。据一位要求匿名的政府高级官员透露，这笔资金属于多年期预算计划的一部分，目前海军暂未重新调配其他资金用于此项目。
The Navy’s part of the contract comes with a $2.9 billion ceiling, based on performance, and will be used to buy the submarine components produced at the site. The government spending is part of a multi-year budget process with the Navy not reallocating any funds on it now, according to a senior administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
该工厂将专门生产大型预制模块与外壳——即潜艇的巨型预制构件，随后运送至各核潜艇造船厂完成整体组装，从而为弗吉尼亚级潜艇计划提供有力支持。
The facility will support the Virginia-class submarine program by building super modules and casings — essentially, enormous prefabricated sections of the vessel — that can be sent to the nation’s nuclear submarine shipyards for integration into completed boats.
穆尔在接受彭博社采访时称，马里兰州及巴尔的摩县已承诺通过经济激励政策，为预期的私人投资提供最高13%的配套资金；此外，州政府还将出资建设一个专门的人才培训中心。
Maryland and Baltimore County have made commitments to match as much as 13% of the anticipated private investment through economic incentive programs and the state will invest in the construction of a center of excellence for work force training, Moore said in an interview with Bloomberg.
安杜里尔项目是继一系列重大投资之后实施的又一举措。作为2028年民主党总统候选人的潜在人选，摩尔将这些投资视为马里兰州致力于实现经济多元化的有力证明。今年，三星生物制剂公司在罗克维尔设立了其在美国的首家生产基地；与此同时，Sphere Entertainment也计划在位于国家港度假区的地带建造一座规模稍小的娱乐场馆——该地与罗克维尔一样，都紧邻华盛顿。
The Anduril project follows a string of major investments that Moore, a potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2028, has touted as evidence of Maryland’s campaign to diversify its economy. Samsung Biologics Co. opened its first US manufacturing facility in Rockville this year while Sphere Entertainment plans a smaller version of its Las Vegas venue at the National Harbor resort, which like Rockville is near Washington.
在造船厂预计于2030年正式投入运营之前，安杜里尔将主要在加利福尼亚州生产鱼雷发射管，以支持弗吉尼亚级潜艇的制造工作。据政府高级官员透露，待巴尔的摩工厂投产后，预计每年可创造约900万小时的劳动量，从而使造船产能提升15%。
Until 2030, when the shipyard is expected to be functional, Anduril will focus on producing torpedo tubes in California to support production of the Virginia class submarines. Once the Baltimore site is operating, the goal is to add about 9 million hours of labor annually, increasing shipbuilding capacity by 15%, according to a senior administration official.