Explore 107 stories on technology, defense, energy and industry from 2024–2026. These retrospectives were prepared in October 2026 and retain the context of the period covered.
Historical announcements and opportunities may have changed. Follow the sources in each story for current program details.
2026
- Manufacturing apprenticeship fund doubles its per-employer limit2026-10-14
- NETL’s OASIS oxygen technology turns toward smaller industrial users2026-10-06
- PAC-3 missile expansion brings seven-year orders for seekers and propulsion2026-10-05
- Endurazymes licenses a fluorescent test for hardier industrial enzymes2026-10-01
- Synspective reserves 20 more Electron launches for its radar satellites2026-10-01
- Fervo starts commercial operation at Cape Station’s first 33-megawatt unit2026-09-30
- Hitachi’s new transformer factory targets a bottleneck that lasts years2026-09-15
- FAA funds transmitters for 3,000 airport vehicles2026-09-14
- R3 Lithium aims to take battery recycling beyond shredded material2026-09-10
- Northrop opens a Utah factory for the B-21 production expansion2026-09-09
- North Dakota returns to the fleet after Portsmouth’s first Block III overhaul2026-08-31
- Kadena’s first assigned F-15EX leaves Boeing for preparations in Oregon2026-08-28
- Pandora begins separating an exoplanet’s atmosphere from its star’s light2026-08-25
- Army drone marketplace expands to payloads, software and training2026-08-14
- DARPA’s winning lift drone carried 3.84 times its own weight2026-08-11
- Navy orders 14 submarines from Electric Boat–Newport News building team2026-07-29
- Austal launches Navy dry dock designed to lift destroyers and cruisers2026-07-28
- TSMC’s Arizona plan reaches $265 billion with four more fabs2026-07-16
- Bosch’s Roseville chip conversion gains a $225 million federal agreement2026-07-13
- DOE’s $500,000 storage prize targets manufacturing problems at the design stage2026-07-07
- Sabanto and Verdant let a precision sprayer adjust the tractor pulling it2026-06-30
- SUBCO puts Australia’s 5,000-kilometer SMAP data cable into service2026-06-25
- Federal quantum-security plan sets 2030 and 2031 migration deadlines2026-06-24
- NSF’s open-source program funds the maintenance and security around useful code2026-06-09
- HHS and GSA create a common purchasing route for grants-management software2026-06-08
- Meadowlands puts a more mobile satellite jammer into service2026-06-08
- The last Marine Harrier squadron retires; two jets become corrosion classrooms2026-06-03
- NASA awards Astrolab and Lunar Outpost contracts for Moon Base rovers2026-05-26
- GAO finds Air Force depot delays worsened as revised deadlines obscured the wait2026-05-14
- Zero-trust guidance reaches the machines that have to keep running2026-04-29
- Marines who completed non-core training in 2025 get until 2027 to repeat it2026-04-28
- IperionX’s titanium ramp: a 4.2-ton month, a new press and a furnace setback2026-04-27
- Robinson’s license renewal preserves a 759-megawatt nuclear option through 20502026-04-23
- Golden Pass ships its first LNG cargo from a former import terminal2026-04-22
- Wildfire training puts Guard tanker crews and ground firefighters through different drills2026-04-20/2026-04-24
- NIH clarifies business-assistance funding after SBIR and STTR renewal2026-04-20
- Australia signs for three Japanese-built Mogami frigates2026-04-18
- EPA’s water-reuse plan tackles the gap between wastewater and factory supply2026-04-16
- Army Reserve medical kits get a common inventory—and clinical input2026-04-06/2026-04-10
- 2026 port grants reserved $122 million for small-port projects2026-03-26
- White Mesa produces a pilot kilogram of terbium oxide for magnet testing2026-03-25
- Navy acquisition portfolios gain authority over engineering, contracts and upkeep2026-03-15
- GE Aerospace’s $1 billion manufacturing plan includes $100 million for suppliers2026-03-09
- Digital Shield tests allied drone defenses as one connected system in Estonia2026-03-05
- Damaged power supports put Portal North’s first track to work early2026-03
- FDA’s BioFoundry brings automated cell manufacturing into the regulator’s lab2026-02-27
- A steel mill, rail link and wharf shape US Forged Rings’ North Carolina plan2026-02-26
- Davie’s Arctic cutter order pairs Finnish experience with Texas shipyards2026-02-11
- Pennsylvania studies whether retired power sites can reuse their grid connections2026-02-03
- Natrium wins construction approval as the U.S. builds its advanced-reactor fuel supply2026-01-05–2026-03-09
- Atlas launch ties Boston Dynamics’ humanoid to Hyundai’s 2028 factory plan2026-01-05
- Intel launches Core Ultra Series 3, bringing 18A chips to a broad PC rollout2026-01-05
- Army’s M1E3 Abrams prototype targets a lighter, easier-to-upgrade tank2026-01
2025
- Chimney Hollow finished construction with a water-quality problem still open2025-12-19
- Texas Instruments’ Sherman fab starts with the chips that manage power2025-12-17
- Idaho’s delivery added a submarine designed to spend less of its life in overhaul2025-12-15
- One hundred thousand totes gave Digit a useful work record2025-11-20
- SBA’s accelerator prizes paid for the help around a growing business2025-11-19
- A 275-person team helped move Susquehanna’s warehouse onto new software2025-11-10
- Storis’s first Arctic patrol put a commercial ship and a mixed crew to work2025-10-03
- Bifrost turned a new Pacific route into commercial traffic2025-10-01
- SBA’s new manufacturing loan addressed the cash gap before a customer pays2025-09-03
- The YFQ-42A’s first flights gave the Air Force a new set of questions to answer2025-08-27
- NISAR had to unfold before it could measure a moving Earth2025-08-15
- A local email server became a federal cloud-security deadline2025-08-07
- Kingman added the missing step in its steel mill: melting the metal2025-07-28
- Grain Belt Express lost its federal guarantee—and time on its permitting clock2025-07-23
- A better atomic clock made precision less time-consuming2025-07-14
- The Pentagon’s MP Materials deal bought more than magnets2025-07-10
- A living reference gave biomanufacturing labs a common starting point2025-06-30
- Centrus delivered 900 kilograms of HALEU. Reactor-ready fuel was the next task.2025-06-25
- The Army stopped buying the Booker. Closing the program was a separate job.2025-06-11
- NuScale’s 77-megawatt approval gives developers a larger reactor design to license2025-05-29
- Norway finished its F-35 deliveries while building the missile capability to go with them2025-04-28
- LTAMDS entered production with more work ahead on the radar’s field performance2025-04-21
- The 2025 acquisition order put late weapons programs on notice2025-04-09
- The F-47 award bought a path from secret experiments to test aircraft2025-03-21
- Corpus Christi’s first Stage 3 train moves from commissioning into Cheniere’s hands2025-03-16
- Blue Ghost’s landing bought two weeks of work on the Moon2025-03-02
- Toyota’s North Carolina battery ramp began with hybrids2025-02-05
- Pratt & Whitney’s $285 million Asheville expansion reached deeper into the engine supply chain2025-01-28
- Britain’s first home-built Boxer marked the start of a larger production task2025-01-21
- El Capitan’s dedication opened a year of becoming useful2025-01-09
2024
- Willow made a larger quantum memory a more reliable one2024-12-09
- TSMC’s Arizona award became final in 2024—and its first fab began making chips at volume2024-11-15
- Boeing’s strike ended in November. Restarting the 737 line took another month.2024-11-04
- Rhyolite Ridge won its federal permit. The lithium supply still had to be built.2024-10-24
- CMMC’s 2024 rule made cybersecurity evidence part of the supplier equation2024-10-15
- Europa Clipper left Earth built for brief visits to a harsh neighborhood2024-10-14
- New Jersey brought crew integration into the submarine’s original design2024-09-14
- Rotterdam’s new battery recycler opened at the middle of the materials chain2024-09-09
- Australia’s missile-factory commitment aimed to shorten the overseas queue2024-08-22
- Quantum-resistant cryptography acquired final specifications2024-08-13
- FLRAA’s 2024 development approval put six prototypes on the path to flight2024-08-02
- F-35 deliveries restarted with a training fleet and unfinished combat software2024-07-19
- Five founders gained two years inside Argonne’s laboratories2024-07-17
- Baltimore recovered the full width of its shipping route2024-06-10
- FERC told transmission planners to look 20 years ahead—and explain who should pay2024-05-13
- The Russian uranium ban came with a transition clock for U.S. reactors2024-05-13
- Replicator’s first public selections put production speed ahead of a new prototype2024-05-06
- Vogtle 4 finished the expansion. Paying for it was a separate calculation.2024-04-29
- The Air Force’s 2024 CCA choice funded aircraft it could test for production2024-04-24
- Zipline’s millionth delivery carried IV fluid in Ghana2024-04-19
- Letterkenny’s modernization started where repair work enters the depot2024-04-09
- A three-ton camera reached completion at micrometer precision2024-04-03
- GE’s final split put aircraft engines and the power grid in separate companies2024-04-02
- NSF’s first Engines put regional industry partnerships on a two-year clock2024-01-29