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Jul 17, 2026

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3 min read

Brownsville Lands Port Alpha

Plus: Foxlink opens its first U.S. AI factory in Fort Worth, Senra raises $65 million for wire-harness capacity, EPC Power opens a 275-job inverter plant, and Ursa Major wins a Navy rocket-motor contract.

Jul 14, 2026

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4 min read

Rare Earths Return to Marion

Plus: Bosch starts silicon-carbide production in California, Echodyne scales to 30,000 radars a year, the Gordie Howe bridge gets an opening date, and Helsing raises $1.8 billion.

Jul 9, 2026

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1 min read

Welcome to Ohio's #1 Era

16 years ago, CNBC ranked Ohio 34th for business. Today, it's #1 in America.

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Jul 9, 2026

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4 min read

America's Chip Buildout Is 157,000 Workers Short

Plus: Fincantieri buys deeper into subsea services, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern inch an $85 billion merger forward, July imports set a record before the tariff clock runs out, and Standard Nuclear files to go public.

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Jul 7, 2026

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3 min read

Built Here, Owned There

Plus: Lockheed buys into the undersea fight, a former bitcoin miner leases 400 megawatts to Anthropic, SK Hynix lists in New York, and a June jobs print that landed at half the forecast.

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Jul 2, 2026

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5 min read

Radar Gets A Factory Calendar

Plus: a $500 million counter-drone ceiling, Alcoa's $5.6 billion aluminum play, Micron locks in GM, and the world's highest-grade uranium mine goes quiet.

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Jul 1, 2026

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4 min read

Rewiring the Northeast

Avangrid Deputy CEO Kim Harriman joins the Standard & Works Show

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Jun 30, 2026

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6 min read

America's One Memory Maker

Plus: Raytheon's $1.1 billion Sidewinder reload, South Carolina idles its newest $1.2 billion port terminal, Safran buys its way into sea drones, and a $2.6 billion desert solar farm reaches financing.

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Jun 25, 2026

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3 min read

Seven Year Missile Run

Plus: Agility's public-market robotics bet, Slate's Indiana factory, IACMI's workforce expansion, and project-cargo logistics for oversized industrial loads.

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Jun 23, 2026

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3 min read

Hot Reactor Summer

Plus: Rocket Lab turns around a Space Force launch, MDA buys Blue Canyon for $620M, Port of Virginia goes deep, UPS expands pharma cold chain, and Groq raises $650M.

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Jun 22, 2026

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3 min read

The University Becomes Defense Infrastructure

Research universities move to anchor the new defense industrial base

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Jun 18, 2026

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3 min read

Washington Trades Grants for Equity

Plus: a $9.7B copper mine clears Argentina, BNSF's $4B desert rail hub, the Air Force's first combat drones, and J&J's $1B lens plant.

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Jun 16, 2026

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4 min read

Eaton Trades Car Parts for the Power Grid

Plus: Google reportedly hands Intel a 3-million-chip order, Lockheed lands $2.3B to keep the F-35 flying, a $3.5B solar-and-battery project gets funded in Arkansas, and Einride's robot trucks head for the public market.

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Jun 11, 2026

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3 min read

The Rescue Boat Nobody Was Driving

Plus: Day & Zimmermann re-ups the country's largest ammo depot for twenty years, iRocket turns Hydra-70s into drone killers, Iceye's radar-satellite round hits ~$12B, and the Pentagon reorders domestic antimony.

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Jun 9, 2026

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4 min read

Grimes County Bets Its Tax Base on Terafab

Plus: State Department clears a $1.98B Anduril counter-drone sale to Kuwait, NextEra moves to buy Dominion in a roughly $120B deal, SpaceX launches a $75B IPO roadshow, and DOE commits $850M to coal plant modernization.

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Jun 4, 2026

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4 min read

Rare Earth Gets Real In Blacksburg

Plus: Raytheon wins SPY-6 work, Air Products expands near St. Louis, AV grows in Dayton, Urenco adds enrichment capacity, and Mach raises $300M.

Jun 2, 2026

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3 min read

Utah Is Building

Plus: Davie turns Texas shipyards toward icebreakers, OPmobility adds Toledo supplier capacity, SEG Solar builds in Houston, and NVIDIA pulls AI into the fab.

Jun 1, 2026

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5 min read

Four Conversations in Utah

The race to reindustrialize is being waged state by state. Four conversations in the Beehive State show what a winning model looks like.

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May 28, 2026

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4 min read

Modine Sells The Factory Calendar

Plus: Johnson Matthey buys into data-center emissions control, DTE backs Michigan-made batteries, BorgWarner expands in Hendersonville, and X-Bow scales rocket motors in Texas.

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May 26, 2026

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3 min read

North Dakota's Governor Pitches the Prairie

Plus: America's last rail mill gets a billion-dollar upgrade, every package in America just got smarter tracking, and $127 billion in tariff refunds hitting Monday.

May 25, 2026

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4 min read

A North Dakota Dispatch

North Dakota Governor Kelly Armstrong joins the Standard & Works Show

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May 21, 2026

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3 min read

AMCA, SendCutSend, and The New Factory Middle

Plus: Google builds Missouri power load, BAE upgrades munitions facilities, rare-earth refining without China’s reagent choke point, and submarine combat-control work.

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May 19, 2026

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2 min read

Camden Becomes A Missile Factory Town

Plus: solid rocket motor funding, radios that detect drones, F-35 electronic warfare kits, Utah lithium, and data-center backup power.

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May 7, 2026

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2 min read

Colossus Sized Bet

Plus: NVIDIA and Corning's optical manufacturing buildout, Astranis' $450M raise, Scout Space's Virginia production line, and Moment Energy's second-life battery factory round.

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May 7, 2026

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2 min read

North Carolina Mobilizes to Land Defense Spending

New coalition targets $2 billion in Pentagon R&D and manufacturing contracts, a ten-fold increase

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