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Oct 5, 2026

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The Quiet Reindustrialization of North Dakota

Home to drones, robots, and abundant energy, the new industrial economy has arrived on the Northern Plains

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Oct 1, 2026

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3 min read

Newport News Gives Truman a Second Life

Plus: a $22.3B Texas energy campus, a $3B shipyard, and $251M for Varda.

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Sep 29, 2026

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3 min read

Jacksonville Sends A Power Grid To Orbit

Plus: a $20.7B missile award, $240M in solar orders, and $150M for physical-AI chips.

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Sep 24, 2026

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4 min read

Inola Unveils A $4 Billion Aluminum Smelter

Plus: an $876M jammer award, a torpedo fired from an unmanned sub, and 2,500 electric trucks on order.

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Sep 22, 2026

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3 min read

Pine Bluff Lands a $2.2 Billion Munitions Campus

Plus: a $6.5B pharma groundbreaking, a $1.2B missile award, and new capital for batteries, water, and uranium.

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Sep 14, 2026

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3 min read

Will This Be the Navy's Next Public Shipyard?

The Pentagon Owes The White House a Plan in 90 Days

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Sep 8, 2026

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3 min read

Missouri Moves To Recycle Magnets

Plus: Seasats lands $24 million in orders, HII lifts shipbuilding pace, and Austin adds a chip lab.

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Aug 27, 2026

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3 min read

Canton Turns Up The Heat

Plus: Lam grows Oregon chip R&D, BAE modernizes USS Boxer, and SiFly raises $20 million for U.S. drone production.

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Aug 25, 2026

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3 min read

Georgia Closes The Battery Loop

Plus: an Army tactical power grid advances, a $65 million medical-electronics tender lands, and Colorado adds stored-energy manufacturing.

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Aug 18, 2026

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3 min read

The Pentagon’s New Sandbox

Plus: a Mach 1 test track opens in Indiana, Tomahawk production gets a seven-year runway, and maritime nuclear power moves into site assessment.

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Aug 13, 2026

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4 min read

Prysmian Builds A Bigger Fiber Backbone

Plus: DARPA pushes cooler RF electronics, 100 megawatts of GPU capacity moves toward market, and a 300-megawatt battery goes live.

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Aug 4, 2026

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4 min read

Base: Building The Home Grid

Plus: Google's Oklahoma solar deal, 18 missile-tracking payloads, rail infrastructure capital, and a 55.6 factory PMI.

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Jul 28, 2026

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4 min read

Ohio Gets Furious

Plus: Electra’s $850 million Ohio plant, 200 jet-engine jobs, a record LEAP agreement, and four Tacoma cranes.

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Jul 21, 2026

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4 min read

The Apache's New Wingman

Anduril and Archer unveil an autonomous tiltrotor built to fly as a wingman for the Apache. Plus JetZero's $3 billion EXIM letter, a $17 billion launch ceiling, a $1 billion West Virginia engine award, and a busy Dealbook.

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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.

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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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

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