Why this project qualifies
With $1.5 billion in facility-specific investment and 2,000 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
- Northrop Grumman (B-21 Production)
- Industry
- Aerospace
- Location
- Palmdale, California
- Investment
- $1.50B
- Permanent jobs announced
- 2,000
- Status
- Operational
- Announced
- Dec 2, 2022
- Operations began
- Jan 1, 2024
- Added to tracker
- Feb 18, 2026
Sources
Official references
- Primary source https://www.northropgrumman.com/what-we-do/aircraft/b-21-raider
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