PicoGrid opens El Segundo facility, says it will expand staff and production for Defense customers

PicoGrid, a defense-technology company, opened a new high-tech facility in El Segundo City and said it plans to expand its workforce from about 30 employees to as many as 120 and to more than triple production capacity to support Department of Defense work.

The move is being presented as an economic win for El Segundo. A city representative said the company’s growth is part of broader regional activity, telling attendees that the region has seen about $22,000,000,000 in “excess economic activity” tied to similar firms.

At the event, a PicoGrid representative described the company’s customers and partners, saying, “We work primarily with the US military, working with the air force, army, space force, and we work with a number of different partners, including small startups and and large brands.” The representative also said the company recently relocated from Main Street to the new facility and added, “With this building, we are going to grow from about 30 people to as many as 120 people. That's how much space we have here. So we are really excited to, 1, increase our r and d capacity. So doing more projects, with DOD and investing in building better technology for Department of Defense. We will more than triple our production here.”

Speakers at the event referenced El Segundo’s aerospace history—naming figures such as Jack Northrop, Donald Douglas and Howard Hughes—to place the new facility in a longer local manufacturing and aerospace tradition. The PicoGrid representative also praised the company’s team and the local cluster of technology firms in the city as a driver for collaboration and growth.

No formal city action, vote or funding decision was announced at the presentation; the session consisted of company remarks and city remarks celebrating the expansion. The company did not specify contract values, exact hiring timelines, or detailed funding sources for the expansion during the remarks recorded in the transcript.

For context, the company framed the move as an opportunity to increase research-and-development work and production tied to Department of Defense projects, and city remarks framed the expansion as contributing to regional economic activity.