Connecticut Manufacturers

EASTCONN, a regional educational service center and nonprofit, unveiled their new mobile manufacturing lab, a groundbreaking initiative designed to bring the future of the industry directly to students at their schools and to education and job fairs in the area.

President Joe Biden’s budget proposal would help protect tens of thousands of Connecticut jobs at Pratt & Whitney as well as its suppliers by supporting the modernization of the F135 engines for fighter jets.

Australia will purchase U.S.-manufactured, nuclear-powered attack submarines to modernize its fleet. The submarines, which cost $3 billion each, are built at shipbuilding plants in Virginia and Connecticut.

Sikorsky Aircraft, the Stratford, Connecticut-based helicopter manufacturer, has lost out on a $1.3 billion contract to replace Black Hawk helicopters for the U.S. Army.

Fisheries across the East Coast are feeling the effects of shifts in fish distribution, abundance, and productivity.