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Boeing to Build New USAF Fighter

March 24, 2025
A $20-billion award covers finalizing and testing the F-47 design, a stealth-enabled aircraft and part of the Next-Generation Air Dominance platform – characterized as “something...
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Nano Dimension Ordered to Close the Deal

March 26, 2025
A court has ruled that the additive manufacturing group violated its merger agreement with Desktop Metal – and directed Nano Dimension to complete the takeover by March 31.
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Boeing Lands Multi-Billion-Dollar 737 MAX Order

March 25, 2025
Malaysia Airlines’ holding company will receive 30 new narrow-body aircraft as it expands and modernizes, and holds options that would double the order total.
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GE’s $1B CapEx Plan to Update Manufacturing

March 21, 2025
The commercial and military technology group is working to advance its production processes, including use of new materials and components. About 5,000 new engineers and manufacturing...
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Siemens Cutting 6,000 Positions

March 19, 2025
The global engineering group’s Digital Industries business unit supplies industrial automation hardware and software, but faces prolonged weak demand in certain critical markets...
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Siemens Adding Capacity for Electrical Systems

March 10, 2025
Expansions at plants in California and Texas are increasing production for equipment and systems for power distribution and monitoring, and controlling electrical systems, to ...
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$99M Expansion for Sikorsky Copter Award

March 5, 2025
The U.S. Dept. of Defense nearly doubled the value and increased the scope of an earlier award for heavy-lift rotary aircraft, covering engineering, software, flight-test support...
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Honda to Reshore New Civic

March 4, 2025
The future Civic hybrid vehicle will be reassigned from Mexico to Indiana to avoid a threatened 25% surcharge on imports.
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Steel Tonnage Apparently Up to Start the Year

March 3, 2025
A three-month decline in global steel production is avoided, but the latest result trails the year-over-year pace by more than 5%.