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DLA Land and Maritime Combined Synopsis / Solicitation notices look short on purpose. A few lines of NSN, quantity, delivery, and approved sources often sit on top of a much larger decision: whether you are quoting a one-shot buy or an Automated Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) that can keep ordering for a year. Shops that scan the same five fields every time waste less bid t …
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NASA aerospace manufacturing just got another tooling signal: Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Boeing finished a nearly two-ton Stamp Form Die for NASA’s Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing (HiCAM) project — printed with wire-arc additive manufacturing instead of traditional casting and machining alone. Published September 21, 2026 by ORNL, the mold stands abo …
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Missile production capacity is becoming a front-line industrial story for U.S. Army and joint air-and-missile defense programs. On September 23, 2026, Lockheed Martin said it plans to invest $8 billion to $9 billion to expand munitions manufacturing across more than 20 sites, with thousands of jobs and a clear push into the supplier base — not only final assembly. The com …
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