Category: Defense
The defense industrial base: contracts, shipyards and munitions.
Department of War awards Alaska Range Resources $43.4 million to produce military-grade antimony trisulfide in Alaska
Additional Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2022
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Performance Drone Works opens 90,000-sq-ft Drone Factory 01 in Huntsville, Alabama
Performance Drone Works news release (PR Newswire)

Department of Defense awards $10 million to Elk Creek Resources to develop domestic scandium mine-to-master alloy supply chain
U.S. Department of Defense news release (war.gov)
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L3Harris opens 379,000-square-foot solid rocket motor facility in Huntsville with $20 million investment
L3Harris Technologies news release (madeinalabama.com)

Aleut Real Estate breaks ground on $32.7 million aviation hangar at Pryor Field Regional Airport
madeinalabama.com, reporting a groundbreaking announcement by Aleut Real Estate LLC

Navy awards $18.4 billion contract to General Dynamics Electric Boat for two Virginia-class submarines, with work at Quonset Point, R.I.
Office of U.S. Senator Jack Reed news release (reed.senate.gov)
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BAE Systems awarded $70 million contract from General Dynamics Electric Boat for Block VI Virginia-class submarine missile tubes
BAE Systems news release (PR Newswire)

Kratos breaks ground on $50 million hypersonic testing facility in Indiana
Indiana Economic Development Corporation news release
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Olin breaks ground on 450,000-square-foot 6.8mm ammunition facility at Lake City Army Ammunition Plant
Olin Corporation news release (PR Newswire)
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Department of Defense awards Anduril $14.3 million to expand solid rocket motor production in McHenry, Mississippi
Department of Defense DPA Purchases Office contract announcement (war.gov)
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Department of Defense awards $253.7 million to Williams International to expand gas turbine engine production capacity
2024 Indo-Pacific Security Supplemental Appropriations Act and Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act 2024
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K2 Space signs $60 million Space Force STRATFI contract to launch Mega Class satellite in February 2026
K2 Space news release (PR Newswire)
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Commerce Department finalizes CHIPS awards to BAE Systems ($35.5 million) and Rocket Lab ($23.9 million)
National Institute of Standards and Technology / U.S. Department of Commerce news release (nist.gov)
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DOE awards West Valley Demonstration Project Phase 1B cleanup contract to West Valley Cleanup Alliance, valued at up to $3 billion
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management contract announcement (energy.gov)
Department of Defense awards TTM Technologies $30 million to expand printed circuit board production at new Syracuse, N.Y. facility
Department of Defense news release (war.gov)
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Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace to establish first U.S. production facility in James City County, Virginia, with $71 million investment
Office of the Governor of Virginia (Glenn Youngkin), news release via vedp.org
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BAE Systems awarded over $440 million contract modification to produce more than 200 Bradley A4 Fighting Vehicles for U.S. Army
BAE Systems news release (PR Newswire)

Department of Defense awards Honeywell $25.8 million for radiation-hardened microelectronics fabrication in Plymouth, Minnesota
Department of Defense news release (defense.gov)
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