Motorola commits $100M to expand Silvus radio production

Motorola Solutions earmarks $100 million to scale up manufacturing and supply at Silvus Technologies, starting with a new plant in Salt Lake City, Utah. The aim is to match StreamCaster MANET radio output to rising orders from defense and public safety users.

By SamPublished May 14, 2026Updated October 22, 20262 min read

A purpose-built plant of 165,000 square feet in Salt Lake City anchors the programme and is set to handle high-volume manufacturing. Motorola expects it to generate 200 jobs.

According to Motorola, the added capacity lets Silvus ship more StreamCaster MANET radios without lowering the standards that defence, police and public-safety buyers require. The money comes on top of a separate build-out in Los Angeles. With production in Utah and California, Motorola diversifies the supply of Silvus radios.

Jack Molloy, the company’s executive vice president and COO, says demand for resilient, high-bandwidth links keeps climbing and that the spending readies Silvus for it. He adds that Motorola wants to put the most advanced technology in the hands of warfighters and public safety professionals.

Utah’s Inland Port Authority and the governor’s economic development office back the project. Governor Spencer J. Governor Spencer J. Cox says the new jobs strengthen Utah’s position in aerospace, defence and advanced communications manufacturing. The Salt Lake City team becomes part of a Motorola workforce numbering 23,000 worldwide. The announcement is dated 14 May 2026 and comes from Chicago, Salt Lake City and Los Angeles.

Silvus is the Motorola Solutions unit for tactical networking and operations in the electromagnetic spectrum. Its StreamCaster radios run on the MN-MIMO waveform that Silvus developed itself, and its customers are defence, police and public-safety organisations.

Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI) describes Silvus as a leader in tactical networking and spectrum operations, with high-capacity MANET links, spectrum awareness and electronic-warfare resilience. The parent has a workforce of 23,000 people devoted to mission-critical communications, and the Salt Lake City team joins it.

Utah’s economic development office and its inland port authority support the investment, and the state calls itself a premier destination for aerospace, defence and technology employers. Governor Cox welcomes the plant as a source of high-quality jobs.

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