{"id":35641,"date":"2025-10-13T09:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T09:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=35641"},"modified":"2025-10-14T20:24:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:24:38","slug":"factory-towns-revive-as-defense-tech-makers-arrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=35641","title":{"rendered":"Factory Towns Revive as Defense Tech Makers Arrive"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The factory in Auburn Hills, Mich., had stood vacant for months, surrounded by unoccupied warehouses that had once been used by car companies in the heartland of America\u2019s auto industry.<\/p>\n

Last year, a start-up called Swarm Defense Technologies moved into an 8,000-square-foot section of the building to begin making drones for defense. By this summer, demand for its drones had grown so rapidly that the company took over the entire 14,000-square-foot factory.<\/p>\n

Today, 47 Swarm employees work in the cavernous space pumping out thousands of drones each month for the U.S. military and other clients. The drones, a little over 10 inches long and less than two pounds, can be used to test anti-drone systems and to simulate attacks. That has made Swarm\u2019s factory a hive of activity in an area where dozens of \u201cFor lease\u201d signs are visible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThere was a huge demand for drones like ours to provide targets for anti-drone systems or to train drones on,\u201d said Kyle Dorosz, 33, a co-founder of Swarm. He added that \u201ceverything about making drones in this place feels right,\u201d since it was \u201cin the DNA of this place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swarm is one of hundreds of defense technology companies that are reviving manufacturing in once-vibrant industrial cities across the Midwest and Northeast. Drawn by local talent, cheap labor and state cash incentives, these companies are building the weapons of the future in old factories or are constructing state-of-the-art sites in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Delaware.<\/p>\n

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The factory in Auburn Hills, Mich., had stood vacant for months, surrounded by unoccupied warehouses that had once been used by car companies in the heartland of America\u2019s auto industry.Last year, a start-up called Swarm Defense Technologies moved into an 8,000-square-foot section of the building to begin making drones for defense. By this summer, demand for its drones had grown so rapidly that the company took over the entire 14,000-square-foot factory.Today, 47 Swarm employees work in the cavernous space pumping out thousands of drones each month for the U.S. military and other clients. The drones, a little over 10 inches long and less than two pounds, can be used to test anti-drone systems and to simulate attacks. That has made Swarm\u2019s factory a hive of activity in an area where dozens of \u201cFor lease\u201d signs are visible.Swarm is one of hundreds of defense technology companies building factories in once-vibrant industrial cities across the Midwest and Northeast.\u201cThere was a huge demand for drones like ours to provide targets for anti-drone systems or to train drones on,\u201d said Kyle Dorosz, 33, a co-founder of Swarm. He added that \u201ceverything about making drones in this place feels right,\u201d since it was \u201cin the DNA of this place.\u201dSwarm is one of hundreds of defense technology companies that are reviving manufacturing in once-vibrant industrial cities across the Midwest and Northeast. Drawn by local talent, cheap labor and state cash incentives, these companies are building the weapons of the future in old factories or are constructing state-of-the-art sites in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Delaware.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35643,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35644,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35641\/revisions\/35644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}