Why this project qualifies
With $142 million in facility-specific investment and 590 permanent operating jobs announced, this project clears both of AFT's qualifying thresholds ($100 million in facility-specific investment OR 100 permanent operating jobs). This project also meets AFT's primary-source verification and physical U.S. manufacturing-footprint requirements.
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The aerospace context.
US aerospace demand is being driven simultaneously by record commercial-aircraft backlogs and a Department of Defense modernization cycle covering bombers, ICBMs, submarines, and hypersonics. Most projects in this category are constrained by skilled-labor availability — welders, composite technicians, machinists — rather than by capital.
Project record
At a glance
- Company
- Lockheed Martin
- Industry
- Aerospace
- Location
- Grand Prairie, Texas
- Investment
- $142.0M
- Permanent jobs announced
- 590
- Status
- Operational
- Announced
- Aug 15, 2023
- Operations began
- Oct 1, 2024
- Added to tracker
- Apr 15, 2025
Sources
Official references
- Primary source https://news.lockheedmartin.com/
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