Fortem Technologies has officially opened its new state-of-the-art headquarters and manufacturing facility in Lindon, Utah.
According to the company, the new 51,000-square-foot building more than doubles Fortem’s previous capacity.
From its expanded base, Fortem says that it will produce its flagship DroneHunter and DroneKiller interceptors and TrueView radar systems.
The company highlights that the new facility enables it to bring previously outsourced manufacturing in-house, cut production lead times and scale up output in response to growing customer demand.
“Drones have upended the economics of air warfare,” said Jon Gruen, CEO of Fortem Technologies.
“For a few thousand dollars, our adversaries can now threaten assets worth billions.
“This new facility is a direct response to that reality. It gives us the scale, speed and integration needed to build the counter-drone systems America and its allies require – not in five years, but right now.”
Fortem’s previous headquarters was located on the sixth floor of an office building in Pleasant Grove, with limited manufacturing space and no on-site flight testing capability.
The new facility – just a five-minute walk from the old one – features over 10,000 square feet of dedicated manufacturing space and on-site flight testing areas, allowing production teams to assemble, test and rework systems without leaving the premises.
The organization says that the building also supports future expansion with pre-permitted plans for an additional 15,000 square feet of manufacturing space.
At full capacity, the Lindon facility can produce:
“This facility is a game-changer for how we build and deploy advanced air-defense systems,” said Fortem Technologies Chief Operating Officer Jim Housinger.
“We’ve eliminated the inefficiencies of off-site testing and fragmented production.
“Now our engineers and manufacturing teams are under one roof, with the ability to build, test, rework and ship – all in the same day. That agility is critical when the threats are evolving by the hour.”