Firehawk Aerospace announced the opening of its 636-acre rocket system integration facility in Crawford, Mississippi, expanding the company’s U.S. manufacturing footprint and strengthening domestic capacity for rocket propulsion systems and energetics production.
The opening of the campus was marked by a ribbon-cutting ceremony with U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, United States Congressman Trent Kelly, Firehawk leadership, state and local officials, and industry partners.
The Mississippi site serves as Firehawk’s primary rocket system integration facility, supporting the assembly, integration, and validation of rockets for Firehawk’s customers. The site will play a central role in scaling the production of rocket systems designed to meet growing demand from the United States and its allies.
Located on 636 acres in Lowndes County, the facility represents a key component of Firehawk’s strategy to build a fully integrated U.S. rocket manufacturing pipeline spanning research and development, propellant production, and full rocket system integration. The facility will create more than 100 jobs in Crawford, Mississippi, and is designed to scale production capacity from approximately 3,000 rockets per month to more than 10,000 rockets per month by 2028.
“In this critical moment for our national security, Mississippi continues to play a leading role in strengthening our defense industrial base and modernizing the American arsenal. This new facility will expand domestic production of highly needed rocket systems, injecting competition and innovation into our industrial base. The opening of this facility in Crawford, and the jobs it will create for this community point to a transformational shift in American defense investment.
We are reviving American manufacturing by creating new opportunities here at home,” said Senator Roger Wicker, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
“Firehawk is investing tens of millions of dollars right here in Mississippi to deliver a scaled solution today, not years from now. This facility was purpose-built to immediately expand rocket system integration and production capacity, enabling us to produce up to 40,000 rocket systems today and scale to 125,000 in the near future. By combining advanced manufacturing with our proprietary energetics, we’re moving faster, producing at scale, and strengthening the defense industrial base in real time. This isn’t a future promise, its capability being delivered now,” said Will Edwards, CEO of Firehawk Aerospace.
The Crawford campus will enable Firehawk engineers and technicians to scale the integration, assembly, and validation of rocket systems powered by the company’s proprietary 3D-printed propellant technology, helping deliver propulsion systems faster and more efficiently than traditional manufacturing approaches.
The facility complements Firehawk’s growing national footprint, which includes research and development operations in Texas, propellant manufacturing operations under development in Oklahoma, and static fire and flight-testing infrastructure in West Texas.
Together, these facilities form a distributed manufacturing network designed to accelerate the development and production of rocket systems for U.S. and allied defense programs.