Divergent Targets Faster, Cheaper Defense Production

• Divergent's advanced design and manufacturing platform allows for rapid prototyping and production, moving from engineering inputs to flight-ready hardware in under three months.
• The company acts as a manufacturing partner, not a prime competitor, for defense contractors like Lockheed Martin and RTX, focusing on speed, quality, and scale.
• Divergent is expanding with a new 430,000 sq. ft. facility in Long Beach, CA, targeting an 8x increase in annual production capacity and planning to add about 1,000 employees.
• Czinger emphasizes that the current defense cycle is long-lasting, driven by modern warfare needs, and advanced manufacturing is key to meeting demand for new systems at lower price points.

Divergent CEO Lukas Czinger highlights how advanced manufacturing, particularly 3D printing of metals, can significantly accelerate and reduce the cost of defense production. The company aims to provide an 'infrastructure layer' for defense contractors, enabling faster development and scalable manufacturing of critical components for the Pentagon.