Machina Labs

This is what it looks like when manufacturing is no longer a slide, a rendering, or a future promise. Complex metal structures are being formed in real time for our guests from SPADA and AFWERX. Machina is the Factory

Machina has been named to the 2026 NatSec100. The NatSec100 report identifies production capacity as one of the defining bottlenecks in defense technology, from drones and missiles to advanced manufacturing and shipbuilding. That is the problem Machina exists to solve. We operate intelligent factories that manufacture complex metal structures for defense, aerospace, and advanced mobility, helping programs move from design to hardware faster with less reliance on traditional tooling and fragmented supply chains. Thank you Silicon Valley Defense Group for including Machina Labs in this year’s list. Check out the full report at: https://www.natsec100.org/ Machina is the Factory.

Yesterday's conversations about rebuilding the defense industrial base happened where they should: inside an intelligent, agile working factory. AI-driven robotics. Complex metal structures. Flexible manufacturing built for defense. A big thank you to Southern Pacific Aero-Defense Alliance, AFWERX, and everyone who joined us at our 2nd LA-based factory for this advanced-manufacturing defense showcase. Machina is the Factory.

nTop has design throughput. Machina has manufacturing throughput. That’s what happens when AI-native engineering meets software-defined manufacturing. Great hosting Bradley Rothenberg and the nTop team inside our LA factory.

AI is changing how we design. Now it has to change how we manufacture. At RPT 2026, Edward Mehr will join industry leaders at Stanford University to discuss what it takes to bring AI onto the factory floor and build dual-use manufacturing infrastructure that can adapt in real time, respond to shifting demand, and produce directly from digital design. RPT 2026 | May 27–28 | Invitation-only Hosted by Ayna in collaboration with Stanford Engineering Center for Global & Online Education. For details, go to: https://lnkd.in/gMWvWE_t

🚨 Last call to register for this Advanced Manufacturing & Defense Showcase at Machina on May 20th. Only a few spots left: https://lnkd.in/eV-Zfrix

The U.S. defense industrial base needs a new kind of prime. For decades, the model has been straightforward: the United States Department of War flows requirements and capital to large prime integrators, who deliver finished systems. It worked. Until it didn't. As Edward Mehr said last week at the AI+ Expo: "There's an opportunity for the Department of War and the government to step in inside the supply chain and actually set requirements for what manufacturing needs to look like for the next 10 years." That's the shift. Not just buying end systems, but investing in and shaping the manufacturing substrate that makes those systems possible. The ask is simple. Set new manufacturing requirements. Challenge incumbents to meet them. Create space for new players if they can’t. Because the U.S. does not need bespoke production infrastructure for every program. It needs a flexible, scalable manufacturing backbone that can support many systems across many primes. Government has the leverage here. It's time to use it.

Defense programs are being constrained by manufacturing, not design. Good coverage from Mobility Engineering on how Machina is building intelligent, agile manufacturing infrastructure for complex metal structures. The future won’t be fixed factories built around a single program. It will be software-defined production that can adapt as fast as requirements change. Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/ebsmazU7