Aug 13, 2026
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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 11, 2026
Plus: an autonomous Navy prototype clears its test, $2 billion for batteries and critical minerals, and $745 million for missile interceptors.
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Aug 6, 2026
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Plus: $50 million for Army loitering munitions, new NRO radar contracts, a 250 MW Texas battery, and $6.5 million for industrial robots.
Aug 4, 2026
Plus: Google's Oklahoma solar deal, 18 missile-tracking payloads, rail infrastructure capital, and a 55.6 factory PMI.
Jul 30, 2026
Plus: Paducah's $100 billion energy campus, a $1.5 billion plasma plant, Ohio's 1.06 GWh battery, and a $20 million telematics round.
Jul 28, 2026
Plus: Electra’s $850 million Ohio plant, 200 jet-engine jobs, a record LEAP agreement, and four Tacoma cranes.
Jul 21, 2026
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.
Jul 17, 2026
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
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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16 years ago, CNBC ranked Ohio 34th for business. Today, it's #1 in America.
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.
Jul 7, 2026
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.
Jul 2, 2026
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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.
Jul 1, 2026
Avangrid Deputy CEO Kim Harriman joins the Standard & Works Show
Jun 30, 2026
6 min read
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.
Jun 25, 2026
Plus: Agility's public-market robotics bet, Slate's Indiana factory, IACMI's workforce expansion, and project-cargo logistics for oversized industrial loads.
Jun 23, 2026
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.
Jun 22, 2026
Research universities move to anchor the new defense industrial base
Jun 18, 2026
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.
Jun 16, 2026
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 9, 2026
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.
May 28, 2026
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.
May 21, 2026
Plus: Google builds Missouri power load, BAE upgrades munitions facilities, rare-earth refining without China’s reagent choke point, and submarine combat-control work.
May 19, 2026
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Plus: solid rocket motor funding, radios that detect drones, F-35 electronic warfare kits, Utah lithium, and data-center backup power.
May 7, 2026
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.