Aiming to boost the West’s arsenal of 155-mm artillery shells through autonomous robotics, UNION Technologies has armed itself with leadership firepower of its own—including Board Director Mike Pompeo, the former CIA director and U.S. Secretary of State. And now, after emerging from stealth in May, the company has closed a $51.3 million seed round with the participation of Nadrah Trading Co., “a leading Saudi industrial group with deep alignment to the Kingdom’s defense sector and Vision 2030 industrial strategy.”

The funding will accelerate deployment of UNION’s software-driven munitions production platform at the company’s 220,000-square-foot HQ and manufacturing facility in Carrollton, a suburb north of Dallas. 

In May, UNION originally described its oversubscribed $50 million seed round as led by Chicago-based Bravo Victor Venture Capital, a national security-focused venture firm “with deep ties to Special Operations and intelligence communities,” alongside BVVC’s strategic co-lead and first customer, Virginia-based Regulus, a boutique defense company focused on securing global supply chains and logistics. Also participating in the round were Silent Ventures, Decisive Point, Vanderbilt University, RKKVC, IronGate, and “several prominent family offices committed to reindustrializing the American manufacturing sector.”

UNION co-founders, left to right: CEO Will Somerindyke; Jonathan Reiland, head of manufacturing; and Joe Musselman, chairman of UNION Technologies and managing partner of Bravo Victor Venture Capital [Photos: LinkedIn/BVVC]

“UNION factories are the new arsenal of deterrence for America,” CEO Will Somerindyke said in a statement in May. “Our factories are smarter and faster—our supply chains resilient. We’ve designed factories that are software-driven, where each component of every line will speak to each other as a neural network and leverage reinforcement learning.”

In a statement today, UNION’s CEO emphasized the importance of international alliances.

“We engineer factories—we’re also reinforcing alliances,” Somerindyke said. “Nadrah understands the stakes. They bring speed, clarity, and strategic alignment to a critical moment in defense manufacturing. Together, we’ll accelerate industrial strength where it’s needed most.”

‘The largest large-caliber shell forge in the United States’

During its war with Russia, Ukraine has reportedly launched millions of 155mm artillery shells—as many as 8,000 rounds a day—leading to occasional shortfalls and rationing. That has increased the urgency of Western nations to boost their munitions production in what seems to be an increasingly dangerous world.

“At a moment when adversaries expand their arsenals daily and America’s energetics enterprise has fallen dangerously behind,” UNION said in May, “UNION exists to reforge the West’s backbone: a stockpile of American super-factories designed to win wars without firing a shot.” 

UNION says its plant in Carrollton is “the largest large-caliber shell forge in the United States.” It will manufacture 155mm artillery shells and serve as “a deployable blueprint and co-architect for allied nations seeking sovereign deterrence capabilities.”

Alongside former Tesla and Anduril engineers, UNION says its team has fused software-driven autonomous robotics with precision manufacturing and continuous improvement practices, with a “Factories-as-a-Stockpile” model representing “a new doctrine for national security manufacturing.”

The company says it is building autonomous, deployable factories to restore strategic stockpiles for the U.S. and its Allies to deliver deterrence “as infrastructure—not inventory.” 

A new Saudi partner

UNION said the support of Riyadh-headquartered Nadrah “will deepen bilateral cooperation across industrial modernization, strategic manufacturing, and technology transfer initiatives.”

Nadrah CEO Muhammad Al Hassan said his company’s support of UNION “is more than financial—it is a commitment to building enduring industrial and defense ties between Saudi Arabia and the United States.”

“Union’s state-of-the-art approach to munitions manufacturing, robotics, and software integration complements Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 strategy to diversify its industrial base and strengthen our defense capability,” Al Hassan added in a statement. “We are proud to support this partnership and look forward to its impact on both nations.”

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