Why this project qualifies
With $1 billion in facility-specific investment and 800 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
- Williams International
- Industry
- Aerospace
- Location
- Crestview, Florida
- Investment
- $1.00B
- Permanent jobs announced
- 800
- Status
- Under Construction
- Announced
- May 20, 2024
- Expected opening
- Jan 1, 2027
- Added to tracker
- Feb 20, 2026
Sources
Official references
- Primary source https://www.flgov.com/eog/news/press/2025/state-florida-and-williams-international-announce-billion-dollar-investment
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