GM is making Patriot missile parts now — GM Defense delivered PAC-3 MSE missile housing components to Lockheed Martin only 22 days after the contract was signed. (Business Insider)

Europe is redesigning the missile business around volume — European militaries are pushing toward cheaper, mass-producible missiles after Ukraine and the Middle East exposed how quickly exquisite weapons inventories can disappear. (Reuters)

Rebuilding US munitions inventories could take at least five years. The constraint is increasingly obvious: defense demand can move faster than the factories, tooling, qualified suppliers and skilled labor needed to refill the shelf. (Breaking Defense)

China prints toys while the West prints munitions — Western additive manufacturing is finding the scale consumer 3D printing never delivered through defense: hypersonic munitions, missile components, submarine parts and drone bodies. (3DP Journal)

How SpaceX streamlined the Raptor engine — Brian Potter breaks down how SpaceX stripped complexity out of Raptor across successive generations, turning rocket-engine development into a manufacturing and iteration problem rather than a one-off engineering masterpiece. (Construction Physics)

EnduroSat raises $205 million and plans a U.S. factory — The Bulgarian satellite manufacturer will use the capital to expand standardized satellite production, open a U.S. manufacturing facility and build a larger European defense hub. (Payload)

Anduril says manufacturing assets will already be moving through its system before planned 2027 production, avoiding a true cold start, but procurement funding remains the binding constraint. (Breaking Defense)

Robotics may be approaching a commercialization tipping point — After visiting a dozen Bay Area robotics companies, Citrini argues humanoid locomotion is increasingly solved, dexterity is improving and repetitive industrial tasks are already moving toward commercially useful autonomy. (Citrini)

America needs manufacturing capability, not simply more factories — IndustryWeek's argument is that adding buildings without the surrounding supplier, tooling, workforce and production ecosystem can leave the actual bottleneck untouched. (IW)

Manufacturing has an AI plumbing problem — An Omdia/Informa survey commissioned by Snowflake says 52% of manufacturers already have live AI in supply-chain or operations workflows, while 43% name fragmented data as their main obstacle to scaling it. (IW)

China is building an early lead in embodied AI — Semafor says analysts increasingly see China ahead in robotics even while the US retains the advantage in frontier AI models, with Chinese companies pushing humanoids into increasingly visible commercial and experimental use. (Semafor)

Mitsubishi Heavy is putting real money behind industrial AI — MHI will invest ¥10 billion in Preferred Networks and deepen joint development of AI for autonomous machinery and mission-critical systems across infrastructure and national security. (MHI)

Sandvik buys Spanish tungsten tailings as feedstock — Sandvik subsidiary Wolfram Bergbau und Hütten will pay Almonty $3 million up front and take at least 1,720 tonnes of contained tungsten trioxide from historical Los Santos mine tailings. This is industrial scavenging in the best sense: old waste becomes strategic feedstock for what Mining Magazine describes as the only fully integrated tungsten smelting operation outside Asia and Russia. (Mining Magazine)

Schneider says the trucking capacity exodus is still in its early innings — Schneider has reduced its approved brokerage carrier network from roughly 60,000 at the peak to 14,000 as theft controls and tougher operating conditions shrink the available pool. (FreightCaviar)

Argentina's mining exports hit a first-half record of $4.74 billion — Exports jumped 75% year over year, with lithium accounting for nearly one-quarter of the total as new projects and expansions came online. (Latin Trade)

Caterpillar launches its first electric-drive large dozer — The Cat D11 XE brings electric drive to Caterpillar's largest dozer class, with the company pitching higher productivity, lower fuel use and reduced ownership costs versus the standard D11. (Canadian Mining Journal)

Australian gold consolidation is accelerating — Producers are chasing more than just larger resource totals, with operating synergies and portfolio quality becoming part of the M&A case (Australian Mining)

Collective Mining reports strong copper and tungsten metallurgy at Apollo — The company says the latest metallurgical work advances the flowsheet ahead of a planned 2027 licensing submission. (JMN)

Sandvik's new underground truck cuts repair time 25% — The Toro TH663i I Gen2 includes more than 30 upgrades, with company data showing 25% shorter mean time to repair and 12% longer mean time between failures. Those are the boring numbers that determine whether expensive mining equipment actually earns its keep underground. (Canadian Mining Journal)

Truckload capacity is still disappearing — Schneider cut its approved brokerage carrier network from 60,000 carriers to 14,000, while Werner expects Q3 one-way rate per mile to rise 10% to 13% year over year. (FreightWaves)

Cass truckload rates jumped 11.3% in August — The linehaul index posted its 20th consecutive year-over-year increase while shipment volumes finally rose 2.1%, ending 42 straight months of declines. (FreightWaves)

Expensive diesel is starting to push freight back onto rail — Union Pacific says shippers are beginning to shift loads from trucks toward rail as fuel prices widen rail’s operating-cost advantage. (Reuters)

J.B. Hunt warned on Q3 costs and shares fell 12% — The company flagged $25 million of incremental driver costs and at least $10 million of sequential fuel headwinds, while eastern intermodal pricing sits roughly 32% below truckload versus a typical 10% to 15% discount. (FreightWaves)

India finishes its 2,800-kilometer dedicated freight corridor — India has completed its rail network built specifically for freight, and one recent train moved as much cargo between JNPT and Vadodara as roughly 250 trucks. (Finshots)

Shipping’s new normal is slower trade, higher costs and bigger profits — Disrupted trade routes and slower shipping have raised operating costs while simultaneously improving economics for ocean carriers and tanker owners. (gCaptain)

Container carriers are returning to Suez despite Red Sea risk — Carriers are accelerating moves back toward the Suez Canal even as the regional security picture remains ugly. (gCaptain)

UP–NS says its merger would create seven new premium intermodal lanes — Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern say the combination could also convert roughly 10,000 existing lanes into single-line service. (Railway Age)

Hitachi is doubling U.S. production of small and medium power transformers — A Mississippi facility will make transformers from 10 MVA to 160 MVA and up to 230 kV, directly adding capacity to one of the grid's ugliest equipment bottlenecks. (Utility Dive)

Europe is putting quotas and price floors on electrical steel — The EU will impose provisional safeguards beginning September 25 covering electrical steel, laminations and transformer cores, with minimum-price thresholds of roughly €2,800 to €3,500 per metric ton. (Reuters)

PG&E cuts roughly $2 billion from its 2027 capital plan — The utility plans to defer about $2 billion of work as California energy costs and wildfire liabilities pressure the system. (T&D World)

Grid leaders are calling for faster manufacturing and workforce expansion — Discussions at CIGRE centered on the need to expand equipment manufacturing, accelerate investment and grow the skilled workforce alongside transmission and generation demand. (T&D World)

Used EV batteries are becoming grid infrastructure — B2U has deployed its second ERCOT storage project using second-life batteries and says a supply agreement with Waymo should expand its access to retired packs. The interesting circular-economy angle is that EV batteries can potentially earn an entirely separate economic life as stationary grid assets before reaching recycling. (Utility Dive) 

CorePower Magnetics raises $10.5 million to manufacture high-heat power equipment domestically — The startup is developing magnetic components designed to operate at temperatures that punish conventional power electronics, then putting part of the new capital into U.S. manufacturing. (Heatmap)

Mexico has 82 new industrial parks under construction — The additions come on top of 491 operating parks spanning roughly 90 million square meters and supporting close to four million jobs. (Latin Trade) 

Higher rates hurt construction, but materials and labor may hurt more — Nonresidential construction input prices were already up 8.9% year over year in August before the Fed added another financing headwind. (Construction Dive)

AECOM says the biggest project decisions happen before construction starts — AECOM president Lara Poloni argues that early planning increasingly determines project economics before contractors ever mobilize. (Construction Dive)

Cast iron versus plastic pipe is turning into a building-material fight — New York is debating whether longstanding cast-iron requirements still make sense against lower-cost plastic alternatives. (NYT)

Mass-timber Ohio State housing project tops out 10 weeks early — The project used glulam columns and beams and reached topping-out nearly 10 weeks ahead of schedule (Construction Dive)

Mortenson and McCownGordon land a $1.9 billion Kansas City ballpark project — The JV will serve as construction manager at risk on the planned 34,000-seat MLB venue, with JE Dunn involved in surrounding development. (Construction Dive)

Whiting-Turner lands a $174 million Coast Guard job in Seattle — The award adds another federal project to the commercial contractor's book. (Construction Dive)

Coca-Cola and its bottlers plan $10 billion of U.S. manufacturing investment — The system expects to spend the money through 2030 expanding production and distribution across its largest market. (Manufacturing Dive)

UNFI is shrinking its distribution footprint around automation — The grocery distributor is consolidating Midwest facilities while rolling lean daily management across 44 distribution centers. (Supply Chain Dive)

Ingredion's $3.6 billion Tate & Lyle deal is a bet on the reformulation boom — Ingredion is expanding deeper into specialty ingredients as food companies reformulate products around sugar, texture, protein and other changing consumer requirements. (Food Dive)

DoorDash is buying Grubhub's college-campus business for $300 million — The operation reaches roughly 450 colleges and universities, linking student ordering directly into campus meal-plan systems, while DoorDash is also committing additional capital to Wonder. (Food Institute) (Bits)

Multi-unit restaurant franchisee bankruptcies are surging — Larger franchise operators are increasingly getting squeezed by expensive debt, higher operating costs and weaker unit-level economics. (Restaurant Dive)

Chipotle is putting apprentice managers in every company-owned restaurant — The program identifies high-performing employees preparing for GM roles and is intended to support staffing as the chain continues opening locations. (Restaurant Dive)

Food-tech capital is moving upstream into the actual production system — Mars' latest venture cohort leans toward technologies rooted in food production rather than another pile of finished consumer brands. (FN)

Louisiana approves its largest landfill as GFL pushes another expansion — Louisiana has approved a major new landfill while GFL Environmental is seeking additional capacity at Arbor Hills in Michigan, with expansions and closures playing out elsewhere around the country. (Waste Dive)

Recycling infrastructure is falling behind the packaging stream — Packaging innovation can quietly obsolete sorting and processing infrastructure long before anyone calls it an infrastructure problem. (Waste Dive)

Southern Africa still has no clean answer for abandoned mines — Mining Magazine says governments and miners continue struggling with how to fund closures, secure dangerous workings and leave communities with viable post-mining economies. (Mining Magazine)

Tetra Tech to pay $57M for falsifying soil samples at Hunters Point Shipyard — settlement over fabricated environmental testing data at the California Superfund site. (Waste Dive)

Used box resellers are eyeing an opportunity as containerboard prices climb, though some corrugated industry watchers doubt it moves the needle. (Packaging Dive)

One in ten inspected cargo units had safety deficiencies — Government inspections found more than 10% of cargo units checked last year had safety problems, a reminder that the freight system's least glamorous equipment can still create outsized operational and environmental risk. (gCaptain)

Oxea hands four-region logistics management to Uber Freight — The chemical manufacturer selected Uber Freight to manage truckload, rail and ocean transportation across the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Europe, its first managed-transportation engagement spanning all four regions. (FreightWaves)

AI is becoming an IT-contract negotiation problem — ISM argues companies need to revisit usage limits, pricing structures, data rights, cybersecurity and flexibility as AI gets embedded into enterprise technology contracts. (ISM)

New data-center firm hires a JLL leader — Another senior real-estate operator is moving from an incumbent services platform into the data-center buildout. (Facilities Dive)

The great wealth-management roll-up — Mr Family Office argues the model is shifting from simply accumulating AUM toward owning a larger percentage of the wealth-management stack. (Mr Family Office)

America’s richest business owners are hiding in plain sight — Research highlighted by Apollo finds that pass-through businesses accounted for 5.8 of the 10.5 percentage-point increase in the top 1% income share since 1985, with roughly 3 million wealthy private-business owners averaging about $25 million in net worth. (Apollo)

Make the rolls by mixing warm water, yeast, and sugar, then gradually adding bread flour and salt. Knead until smooth, work in the softened butter, and let the dough rise until doubled. Divide into four pieces, shape into long hero rolls, proof again, then brush with egg wash, sprinkle with sesame seeds, score, and bake at 400°F for 15–18 minutes until deeply golden.

For the sauce, mix mayonnaise, ketchup, hot sauce, and grated garlic until smooth. Add chopped pickle and fresh dill if you want a sharper, more pickle-heavy sauce, then season with salt and black pepper and refrigerate until needed.

For the filling, sauté chopped onion, green pepper, and optional jalapeño until softened, then stir in the garlic and set the vegetables aside. Brown the 80/20 ground beef hard in a cast-iron skillet, season with Sazón, salt, and pepper, break it into small crispy pieces, then mix the vegetables back in and divide everything into four portions.

To assemble, salt and dry the sliced tomatoes, shred the iceberg lettuce, and toast the split rolls in butter. Reheat each portion of beef, top with two slices of American cheese, and let it melt. Spread sauce over the toasted roll, add lettuce, tomato, and the cheesy beef, then wrap the sandwich tightly in foil for 1–2 minutes so everything steams together before serving.