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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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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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Jan 20, 2026

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12 min read

The States of CES

The cloud is coming down to earth. 10 states went to Las Vegas to land it.

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Jan 12, 2026

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12 min read

Looking North to the Future: Alaska

In an exclusive interview, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy makes the case for why the Last Frontier will become the data center capital of the world – just as the Lower 48 runs out of room

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Dec 12, 2025

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14 min read

Why Pennsylvania is Winning America’s AI Race

The nation's political battleground is wielding "tri-partisanship" to land AI investment at historic scale

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Nov 14, 2025

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13 min read

Utah's Blueprint to Become America’s Aerospace and Defense Leader

Utah’s approach demonstrates a new paradigm in economic development: sector-specific, brand-savvy, and execution-driven.

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Oct 17, 2025

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8 min read

5 Insights from Toby Rice: Modern American Industrialist

EQT CEO Toby Rice is driven by an unrelenting belief that America must build again

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Oct 10, 2025

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2 min read

Looking East: Cross-Hudson Economic Showdown Looms

New Jersey sees an opportunity to win new business and residents if Zohran Mamdani is elected NYC Mayor

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Sep 18, 2025

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2 min read

Michigan Pitches Climate Resilience to Win AI and Data Center Deals

“Boring weather” emerges as a competitive asset in the CapEx race

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