Category: Defense
The defense industrial base: contracts, shipyards and munitions.
Davie Defense breaks ground on $1 billion Gulf Copper shipyard modernization in Texas
Davie Defense news release (PR Newswire)
Defense
AIRAmerican Industry Report
BAE Systems invests $135 million in Texas and New Hampshire facility upgrades
BAE Systems news release (PR Newswire)

Collins Aerospace invests $26.5 million to expand radar production in Largo, Florida
Collins Aerospace news release (PR Newswire)
Defense
AIRAmerican Industry Report
NNSA completes High Explosives Science and Engineering facility at Pantex Plant
U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration news release

L3Harris invests $1.27 billion to expand solid rocket motor production in Orange County, Virginia
Virginia Economic Development Partnership news release
Defense
AIRAmerican Industry Report
Department of War triples PAC-3 seeker production capacity with Boeing and Lockheed Martin
Department of War news release (war.gov)
Defense
AIRAmerican Industry Report
Department of War and Lockheed Martin announce framework to accelerate PrSM production
Department of War news release (war.gov)
Defense
AIRAmerican Industry Report
Department of War and Honeywell Aerospace announce framework to surge munitions production
Department of War news release (war.gov)
Defense
AIRAmerican Industry Report
Department of War announces groundbreaking of munitions campus in Bloomfield, Indiana
Department of War news release
Defense
AIRAmerican Industry Report
Lockheed Martin signs framework agreement with Department of War to quadruple THAAD interceptor production capacity
Lockheed Martin news release (PR Newswire)

Solstice Advanced Materials to invest $220 million in Virginia ballistic fiber expansion
Solstice Advanced Materials news release (PR Newswire)
Defense
AIRAmerican Industry Report
Department of Energy awards $900 million contract to General Matter for HALEU enrichment capacity
General Matter news release (PR Newswire)
Defense
AIRAmerican Industry Report
Department of War invests $18.5 million in Lattice Materials for germanium and silicon optics production
Defense Production Act Title III; Additional Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2022
Defense
AIRAmerican Industry Report
War Department announces first round of FY 2026 APFIT projects surpassing $1 billion
War Department news release (war.gov)
Defense
AIRAmerican Industry Report
Saronic Technologies investing $300 million to expand Franklin, Louisiana shipyard, adding 1,500 direct jobs
Louisiana Economic Development news release (opportunitylouisiana.gov)

X-Bow Systems completes installation of AMSP solid rocket motor production system at Luling, Texas campus
X-Bow Systems Inc news release (PRNewswire)

Boeing South Carolina breaks ground on 787 Dreamliner site expansion near Charleston, targeting 10 airplanes per month in 2026
Boeing Company news release (PRNewswire)

U.S. Army awards Skydio $7.9 million contract for Short Range Reconnaissance Tranche 2 X10D drone deliveries
Skydio news release (PR Newswire)
Defense
AIRAmerican Industry Report
Allison Transmission awarded $97 million Army contract for Abrams tank propulsion systems
Allison Transmission news release (PR Newswire)

NNSA awards BWXT Ordnance Tennessee contract for high purity depleted uranium production in Jonesborough
DOE/NNSA-owned depleted uranium oxides converted at the DOE Portsmouth site
