Sometimes big changes come in small packages. These changes are already happening with our enfeebled defense industrial base. They will also be key in restoring and reshoring our industrial economy.
I’m referring to the starring role of America’s small to midsize manufacturing firms, some as small as less than 100 employees, who are reshaping the industrial landscape. They are companies like Hood Technology Vision, which produce imaging payloads for Northrop Grumman, or NextNav, which provides next-generation global positioning for TRX.
Another example is Astranis, the San Francisco-based satellite company with its 450 employees, which builds small geospatial satellites for communication and defense needs. Or Simwon North America, with its press-hardened technology for Tesla car parts; or Coherent, which makes VCSEL lasers for iPhones and iPads.
They are a far cry from the legacy manufacturers who built America’s industrial might in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They are smaller, leaner, and cleaner — and are harnessing the most advanced technologies, including AI and 3D printing, to carve out their niches in the U.S. and global economies.
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