Weapons Plant
The arsenal remains an important administrative facility for Army tank production, and an armaments production center, as the headquarters for the Army's far flung TACOM (Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command). The historic tank manufacturing plant was closed in 1997. This was home of the United...
General Dynamics Electric Boat Division in Groton is one of the most significant submarine manufacturing sites in the world. Many Trident nuclear submarines have been built here (costing around $1.5 billion each), as well as Seawolf attack submarines, and other types of Navy Vessels, most nuclear-...
General Dynamic's Electric Boat division operates a hull fabrication plant here, where large Navy vessels are assembled, mostly nuclear submarine hulls. The partially built vessels are barged to Electric Boat's main facility in Groton, Connecticut. The 169-acre shoreline facility is part of a...
Hanford is one of five major Department of Energy nuclear processing plants and R...
Rocket motors were produced in this now abandoned industrial complex during World War II and into the 1950's. In the production buildings, heavy walls of cement separated the assembly alcoves from one another, with a shared glass wall to permit an explosion to escape with minimum damage to the rest...
Ingalls Shipyard is one of the largest shipbuilding facilities in the United States. With over 10,000 workers, the yard is the state's largest private employer. Navy destroyers, cruisers, nuclear submarines, and numerous other types of vessels are built at this 800-acre shipyard, more than a square...
Owned by the Department of Energy and operated for many years by Monsanto and EG&G, the Mound Plant produced detonation devices for nuclear weapons and conducted research on nuclear fuels and isotope separation, starting in 1947. The primary activity at this plant is now decontamination of the...
A munitions plant and chemical weapons stockpile site, Newport was the location of the production of TNT, Heavy Water, and, ending in 1968, VX nerve agent. Contamination at the 7,104 acre site is being addressed, and the VX agent stockpile is being neutralized. The facility is managed by the Day...
The largest government-owned weapons manufacturing plant in the country. It is operated by the Army's Industrial Operations Command, and staffed mostly by civilians. Producing weapons on this 946 acre island in the Mississippi River since 1862, it currently manufactures primarily Howitzers, machine...
Now officially a remediated wildlife area, Rocky Flats was one of the seven original primary nuclear weapons component facilities. The 6,550-acre site, 16 miles from downtown Denver, had a heavily industrialized 384-acre complex surrounded by a mostly undeveloped buffer zone. For over 30 years,...
27 square miles of what has been called by many "the most toxic land in America." The only mission at the site now is clean-up. The sprawling plant was established in WWII to manufacture chemical weapons such as mustard gas and napalm. It was later taken over by private companies, including the...
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Manufactures combat vehicles for both land and sea, including hovercrafts for the Navy, and armored vehicles for the foreign customers. Employs aver 400 people at its main plant and headquarters outside New Orleans.