Why this project qualifies
With 100 permanent operating jobs announced, this project clears AFT's 100-permanent-job threshold (AFT includes any project meeting $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
- RTX (Collins Aerospace)
- Industry
- Aerospace
- Location
- Largo, Florida
- Investment
- $26.5M
- Permanent jobs announced
- 100
- Status
- Under Construction
- Announced
- May 11, 2025
- Expected opening
- Dec 1, 2026
- Added to tracker
- Feb 27, 2026
Sources
Official references
- Primary source https://www.rtx.com/news/news-center/2026/05/11/rtxs-collins-aerospace-accelerates-production-with-26-5-million-investment-in-l
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