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Hegseth Praises SNC During Speech At Company’s Dayton Site

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, October 21st, 2026

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Hegseth Praises SNC During Speech At Company’s Dayton Site

Pictured is Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during his speech at Sierra Nevada Corp.'s site in Dayton, Ohio on Tuesday.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth praised Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) in a speech at the company's Dayton site on Tuesday. "What we see here at SNC is the blueprint for a restored American Golden Age of manufacturing and warfighting," he said. SNC in Dayton focuses on work on the U.S. Air Force's Boeing [BA] E-4B Nightwatch, which entered service in 1974, and the build of the follow-on, the E-4C Survivable Airborne Operations Center (SAOC). The Air Force has considered a SAOC…

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