The Scope - Sweet Home Alabama

Defense sector

• $23.5 billion estimated annual economic impact
• $14 billion in defense spending each year

Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville

• Houses the U.S. Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) and the Missile Defense Agency (MDA)

   

  Raytheon launched a $115 million expansion in 2024 of its Redstone Raytheon Missile Integration Facility

• 26,000ft² expansion
• 185 new jobs
• Grows employee footprint of Raytheon and parent company RTX to more than 2,200 people
• Handles integration of nine variants of the Standard Missile family, including Standard Missile-3 and Standard Missile-6
• Will accommodate the Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI)
• Only location in the world where all four RTX businesses – Raytheon Missiles and Defense, Raytheon Intelligence & Space, Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney – and corporate functions all have a physical footprint
  

Lockheed Martin

• New 65,000ft² missile assembly structure in Courtland
• Delivering on Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS), Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW), the Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) programs
• Currently employs approximately 2,600 people in Alabama
  

Austal USA Mobile shipyard expansion in 2024

• Building the Littoral Combat Ship
• 369,600 ft² facility
• Focus on building submarine modules to support the U.S. Navy’s goal of delivering one Columbia-class and two Virginia-class nuclear subs annually
• Expected to create 2,000 jobs
• Combined investments totaling $750 million
  

IntraMicron Inc. partnership with Auburn University

• Awarded a $7.6 million contract in September 2024 by the Department of Defense
• “For the procurement of high-power battery modules in support of the Office of Naval Research”

*Statistics courtesy of Alabama Department of Commerce (https://www.madeinalabama.com)