Zach Silber

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.

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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May 5, 2026

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3 min read

AI Finds The Factory Floor In El Segundo

Plus: Domino's Navy mine-hunting software, Firefly/SciTec's Golden Dome work, Textron's uncrewed surface vessels, and Packet Digital's domestic battery production order.

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Apr 14, 2026

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4 min read

How Oklahoma City Won the Olympics

A site selection loss 30-years-ago jumpstarted an economic development renaissance

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Mar 29, 2026

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4 min read

North Slope, Alaska: The Next Data Center Frontier

The top of the world is open for business and America's hyperscalers are noticing.

Places

Mar 19, 2026

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9 min read

The Florence of Hard Tech

El Segundo, California is the most consequential hard tech cluster in America right now.

Places

Mar 6, 2026

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7 min read

Steel, Ships, and the AI Economy

What do Pittsburgh and Hampton Roads, Virginia have in common? More than you'd think.

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Feb 17, 2026

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5 min read

The Not-So-Secret Weapon to Winning the AI Race? Communication.

The race to build data centers and energy infrastructure won’t be won by engineering alone. It's going to require everyone to start communicating better.

Sectors

Feb 13, 2026

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2 min read

Nevada: From Gaming to Gigafactory

In the heart of CES, GOED's Tom Burns talks economic advantages that go far beyond the Convention Center's walls

Places

Feb 13, 2026

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4 min read

This Fortune 500 CEO Has a Plan to Win the Global Energy Race

Williams CEO Chad Zamarin is steering the Fortune 500 infrastructure giant into a new chapter

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Feb 10, 2026

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3 min read

Water as a Competitive Moat

For governors and economic development leaders looking to land the next mega-project, water capacity can be a critical deal point

Sectors

Feb 3, 2026

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6 min read

The Unicorn's Guide to Site Selection

The next wave of companies states are competing for probably didn't exist a decade ago

Sectors

Feb 2, 2026

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13 min read

Inside the Lilly Winner's Circle

Four sites. 300 proposals. Pennsylvania lands the finale of Lilly's $27 billion reshoring campaign.

Places

Jan 23, 2026

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12 min read

The Need for Speed

Where CapEx lands in America isn't about incentives anymore – it's about velocity

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