A new defence manufacturing company has fired up in Collier County, with plans to hire more than two dozen employees by the end of the summer. The company is called Azimuth Technology. Behind it are local entrepreneurs Len Zaiser and Len Zaiser IV.

The father-and-son team expects to grow their new company to more than 30 employees over the next few months. They’ve already hired about a dozen workers for their newly finished plant at the Westport Commerce Center, near Collier Boulevard.

Under one of those contracts, the company is producing an accessory to light arms products, such as the M16 rifle. The company’s clients will include the US Department of Defense, Homeland Security, law enforcement and private sportsmen.

“We will be producing multiple products,” Zaiser said. “We hope to quickly expand into aerospace and other related industries.”