Saturday, September 5, 2026

American Industry Report

American manufacturing, energy and defense news

Category: Defense

The defense industrial base: contracts, shipyards and munitions.

HII breaks ground on a $1.4 billion submarine module facility at Newport News

1,100 hires over three years, most of them welders and pipefitters.

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Lockheed to double PAC-3 output at Camden by 2028

The Army's multiyear contract underwrites the expansion.

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Navy issues an RFP for a third Columbia-class submarine yard study

Responses are due in November.

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General Dynamics Ordnance opens a Texas artillery-metal plant

The site feeds 155mm shell production lines in three states.

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Pentagon industrial base report calls for a ten-year munitions plan

The report ties production stability to multiyear procurement authority.

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