Five founders gained two years inside Argonne’s laboratories
2024 archive · The July 2024 entrepreneurship cohort paired technical research with support for turning batteries, materials and quantum ideas into businesses.
Archive 2024
Historical coverage of 2024: technology, defense, energy and American industry. Reporting prepared in October 2026.
Baltimore recovered the full width of its shipping route
2024 archive · The June 10, 2024 channel restoration followed heavy salvage and a final survey, reopening a vital passage while bridge reconstruction remained ahead.
FERC told transmission planners to look 20 years ahead—and explain who should pay
2024 archive · Order 1920 changed the regional planning process in 2024, requiring multiple future scenarios and broader benefit calculations before choosing long-term grid investments.
The Russian uranium ban came with a transition clock for U.S. reactors
2024 archive · The 2024 law closed a major supply route while allowing limited waivers, recognizing that replacement nuclear fuel could not be ordered at the last minute.
Vogtle 4 finished the expansion. Paying for it was a separate calculation.
2024 archive · Commercial operation on April 29, 2024, added another large reactor to Georgia’s grid after years of delay, with the project’s cost split across owners and customers.
The Air Force’s 2024 CCA choice funded aircraft it could test for production
2024 archive · Anduril and General Atomics advanced to detailed design and flight-test work, while the eventual manufacturing competition remained open.
Zipline’s millionth delivery carried IV fluid in Ghana
2024 archive · The April 2024 milestone reflected an international operating network, while newly announced U.S. home-delivery services remained ahead.
Letterkenny’s modernization started where repair work enters the depot
2024 archive · An April 2024 construction milestone targeted scattered shipping operations, part of an Army-wide effort to update industrial facilities while keeping weapons moving through repair.
A three-ton camera reached completion at micrometer precision
2024 archive · Rubin Observatory’s 2024 camera milestone joined a vast detector mosaic to fast electronics and unusually demanding optics.
GE’s final split put aircraft engines and the power grid in separate companies
2024 archive · The April 2024 separation created two independently listed industrial businesses with large installed fleets—and years of service work attached to them.
NSF’s first Engines put regional industry partnerships on a two-year clock
2024 archive · The January 2024 awards offered ten teams initial funding, with much larger support conditional on demonstrated progress.
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Replicator’s first public selections put production speed ahead of a new prototype
2024 archive · The May 2024 announcement named Switchblade 600 and outlined maritime and counter-drone investments, backed by roughly $500 million for that fiscal year.