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Aerospace & Defense

Evolution, Accelerated

ARCO Design/Build is reindustrializing America’s manufacturing power – at speed. We build the advanced manufacturing, energy, and mission-critical infrastructure that ensures the United States can design, produce, and scale what matters – faster than our adversaries and ahead of tomorrow’s demands.

National Readiness Starts with Industrial Readiness and Re-shoring

Readiness requires more than training – it requires manufacturing capacity that is domestic, resilient, and fast. Every delay in scaling production introduces risk. Traditional, outdated execution models lack the agility to meet these urgent defense industry demands and undermine national security.​​

It doesn’t have to be this way.

ARCO Design/Build is breaking the models of the past with true design-build execution that enables manufacturers to move from innovation to production at unprecedented speed.

Engineering Speed Without Compromising Precision

Speed without discipline creates risk. Discipline without speed creates stagnation. The failure to balance speed and precision bogs down our defense initiatives in expensive, slow, and sub-optimal outcomes – exposing our warfighters to unnecessary risk.

​Eliminating silos between design and construction, our teams combine deep technical expertise with disciplined execution to deliver facilities that are fast, efficient, and precise. Through modular design, advanced planning, and collaborative delivery, we reduce uncertainty while maintaining the flexibility required for emerging technologies such as AI-enabled manufacturing, robotics, automation, and advanced materials.

From Innovation to Impact  at Scale

Our national defense industry is facing the dual challenges of scaling production and building specialized factories to successfully reindustrialize in this dynamic environment. A culture shift is required to meet these challenges and eliminate the barriers to rapid expansion of our manufacturing capabilities.

With the nation’s most sophisticated design-build capability, we iterate design in near real-time, keeping pace with rapid innovation cycles and evolving warfighter needs. ARCO helps translate innovation into real-world capacity.

We don’t just keep up – we set the pace.

The ARCO Difference

Built for Speed.

Designed for Change.

Our approach mirrors the pace of Silicon Valley – rapid iteration, decisive execution, and continuous improvement – applied to the most demanding industrial environments in the world.

Advanced Manufacturing,

Executed Precisely

From robotics and automation to advanced materials, batteries, and energy systems, we deliver facilities that enable next-generation production at scale.

Cost-Effective, Modular, and Scalable

Our solutions are engineered to move fast without sacrificing precision – reducing risk while enabling expansion, adaptation, and long-term resilience.

Cradle-to-Grave

Partnership

From early concept through full execution and future expansion, ARCO delivers a streamlined, turnkey model that aligns strategy, design, construction, and delivery.

Challenging Yesterday’s

Execution Models

The industry has normalized slow, expensive, and suboptimal outcomes. We reject that standard – because national readiness can’t wait.

Strategic Partner for

Government Bids

National security is built on the factory floor. We deliver the speed, adaptability, and capability to out-innovate at scale.

Facilities That Power Production, Readiness, and Resilience

ARCO Design/Build delivers a broad range of advanced, mission-critical facilities – each designed for speed, adaptability, and long-term operational advantage.

Facility and Mission Support

Industrial Campus & Master Planning

End-to-end master planning for large-scale industrial campuses, defense manufacturing complexes, and industrial parks – aligning land use, infrastructure, utilities, security, and phased expansion into a cohesive, future-ready strategy. Our campus-level planning enables rapid deployment today while preserving flexibility for long-term growth and evolving mission requirements.

 

Biomanufacturing &
Biodefense

Flexible, compliant facilities designed to support rapid deployment, surge capacity, and highly regulated production environments.

 

Secure Operations

High-security, controlled-environment facilities supporting defense manufacturing, testing, maintenance, and mission-critical operations.

 

Advanced Manufacturing & Production Facilities

Facilities supporting robotics, automation, advanced materials, batteries, and high-precision manufacturing – engineered for rapid scale, modular growth, and continuous process evolution.

 

Site Selection and Development

Site selection is where schedule and cost certainty are won – or lost. We pair site diligence with real-world constructability and early pricing, then drive permitting and site development to eliminate surprises and keep mission timelines intact.

 

Energy & Industrial Infrastructure

Facilities supporting energy generation, storage, and resilience – built to enable next-generation power systems and industrial sustainability.

 

Mission-Critical & Digital Infrastructure

Highly reliable environments where uptime, precision, and speed to deployment are paramount.

Your mission is our blueprint.

ARCO Design/Build is advancing the reindustrialization of America and accelerating re-shoring by enabling manufacturers to move from innovation to production at unprecedented speed. We help rebuild critical supply chains across defense, energy, biotech, and advanced manufacturing – ensuring that capability is not outsourced, delayed, or constrained.

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