UNION Technologies partners with Firehawk Aerospace

UNION Technologies and Firehawk Aerospace said they established a strategic collaboration framework intended to strengthen domestic production capacity and modernize critical elements of the Defense Industrial Base (DIB).

The companies framed the effort as a response to expanding adversary arsenals and described deterrence as dependent on the ability to produce systems and munitions at required speed, scale, quality, repeatability and resilience, with surge capability and accountability.

UNION engineers software-defined factories and focused near-term on 155mm artillery forged metal-part production, and Firehawk is building energetics and propulsion manufacturing capacity with emphasis on repeatability, throughput, safety and certification readiness; the organizations described a more integrated manufacturing approach to link component production with system integration.

Initial work targeted 155mm-related metal parts and components with potential expansion into energetics and propulsion systems and other defense manufacturing opportunities; teams intended to maintain a working cadence to align interfaces, quality expectations and near-term evaluation priorities and prioritized readiness initiatives to improve manufacturability, demonstrate process control and enable scalable, high-volume production.

“Production is Deterrence,” said Garrett Unclebach, Chief Executive Officer of UNION. “The United States must be able to produce at speed, at scale, and with full accountability. UNION builds software-defined, automated factories with traceability so the U.S. and our allies can rapidly surge critical production when required. Our alignment with Firehawk brings complementary strengths together across metal parts and energetics to strengthen readiness and reduce friction in the pathways that matter.”

“Firehawk is modernizing energetics and propulsion manufacturing with focus on repeatability, safety and scalable throughput,” said Will Edwards, Founder and CEO of Firehawk. “By combining our capabilities with UNION's software-defined factory platform and advanced metal-parts production we are building disciplined, practical readiness workstreams that strengthen resilient domestic production at scale.” They said they intended to maintain a working cadence to align interfaces, quality expectations and near-term evaluation priorities while evaluating expansion into energetics and propulsion.