The building in north-east Virginia is squat and unremarkable. But inside, rows of missiles lie on worktops waiting to be primed by young technicians for America’s next war.
“This is all set up for if we have to go very fast,” said Doug Denneny, a greying veteran whose defence group Co-Aspire rents the warehouse. He strides past a dozen workstations where warheads would be slotted into open-bellied missiles.
The workshop is designed to solve a simple problem: the US does not produce enough missiles, and those that it does are eye-wateringly expensive. As the country’s munitions stockpiles dwindled during the conflict with Iran, finding ways to produce quickly, cheaply and at scale has become an increasingly urgent challenge.
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