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Lockheed Martin unveils $300m Texas munitions expansion as 6,000 new jobs planned
Lockheed Martin is expanding its Grand Prairie manufacturing complex and bringing Hadrian's automated machining technology into missile production, part of a broader $8 billion to $9 billion industrial investment programme through 2030. The initiative targets higher output across major US missile programmes, but the commercial payoff will depend on production ramp-ups, supply chain performance and sustained defence procurement.
Defense tech’s next test is not software but factories, shipyards and scale
Anduril Industries, Saronic Technologies, Hadrian and Shield AI are moving beyond software, drones and prototypes into shipyards, aircraft plants and automated factories. The emerging shift could reshape competition across the U.S. defense industrial base, but production execution will matter far more than announced capacity.