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Defense Department expands skilled-trades program to three Midwest states

Leads defense industrial base policy and scaling efforts

BuildFreedom.US started in Texas, Michigan, and Pennsylvania in July and added Ohio, Illinois, and Wisconsin in September. The campaign exists because the defense industrial base is short of workers: about 400,000 skilled-trade jobs sit unfilled, a figure the department projects could reach 2.5 million by 2030.

Updated Oct 22

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We're not just building careers for today. We're talking about building careers for the future: AI-proof, six-figure jobs, the ability to work across the country, and to really meet a demand for the future that is at the heart of everything we're trying to do with reindustrializing the country and scaling the industrial base for the future.

from Defense Department expands skilled-trades program to three Midwest states · Updated Oct 22