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Machina wins $9M DoD industrial-base award for containerized "RoboCraftsman" that robotically form metal drone airframes in the field.

These expeditionary production sites called "Edge Factories" manufacture airframes closer to where they are needed.

Each Edge Factory will use a containerized RoboCraftsman robotic manufacturing cell, supported by company engineers, software, and additional production equipment.

Machina's proprietary RoboForming process forms metal structures directly from digital designs without dedicated dies or hard tooling.

The approach is intended to reduce reliance on specialized tooling and centralized production facilities while allowing the same manufacturing equipment to produce different airframe designs.

It's one of six projects picked by America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining under the 2026 Organic Industrial Base Modernization Challenge.

According to Machina, engineers can translate design changes into manufactured metal structures within days, rather than waiting months for new tooling.

The company says it has also manufactured and flown an uncrewed aircraft demonstrator using this workflow.

The current project will build on that work to develop and qualify the LUCAS-class airframe and establish distributed manufacturing capacity.

Moar Power! 🏭⚡️GE Vernova invests $34.5M to expand its Shreveport transformer plant, adding 175 jobs

The expansion adds new manufacturing equipment and process upgrades to boost industrial and renewable transformer output --> reaching full capacity in 2028 as part of nearly $1.3B in planned U.S. plant investment.

Grid equipment demand keeps pulling on domestic suppliers of machined and fabricated components.

“Electricity demand is growing, and transformers are part of the critical grid equipment essential to delivering the power our customers and modern economies depend on,” said Philippe Piron, CEO of GE Vernova’s Electrification segment.

General Electric first broke ground on the facility in 1969, with transformer production beginning in 1970.