{"id":70891,"date":"2026-08-12T06:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T06:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/70891\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T06:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T06:42:12","slug":"siemens-to-revamp-wwii-depot-into-us-army-drone-component-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/70891\/","title":{"rendered":"Siemens to Revamp WWII Depot Into US Army Drone Component Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/dronefront.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/WhatsAppVideo2026-05-15at09.23.58.gif\" alt=\"The Drone Front\" width=\"1280\" height=\"539\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US Army has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/siemensgovt_americas-military-organic-industrial-base-activity-7492580635878879234-5vcE?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAACEHeU8BA7s3Zf7ijcKn7gErYlzOcebxbOk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">awarded<\/a> Siemens Government Technologies (SGT) an $80-million contract to transform a World War II-era facility into a secure, government-controlled plant for unmanned aerial system components.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Work will take place at <a href=\"https:\/\/anad.army.mil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Anniston Army Depot<\/a> in Alabama, converting the aging site into an advanced manufacturing hub that will produce electric motor stator assemblies for drones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Throughout the initiative, SGT will use an artificial intelligence-driven \u201cborn digital\u201d approach, relying on digital twins to model and test production lines before physical manufacturing starts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deal also covers related upgrades for energy resilience and operations safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 12-month contract was awarded by Army Contracting Command at the Detroit Arsenal following 11 bids, with completion expected by August 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SGT said that the project reinforces the military\u2019s push to secure domestic supply chains and modernize aging industrial infrastructure to deliver \u201curgent Army priority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe ability for the Army to control its own production and manufacturing environment\u2026will accelerate their organic expertise and innovation for next generation unmanned aircraft system development and sustainment,\u201d SGT President and CEO John Ustica <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20260804987469\/en\/Siemens-Wins-%2480-Million-Award-for-Advanced-Army-Manufacturing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; The US Army has awarded Siemens Government Technologies (SGT) an $80-million contract to transform a World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21002],"tags":[52616,52617,24643,28006,421,45550,6487,8477],"class_list":["post-70891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-siemens","tag-arms-factory","tag-arms-production","tag-autonomous-systems","tag-defense-production","tag-drones","tag-government-contracts","tag-siemens","tag-us-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}