America has been promised 162 factories since 2017. 54 are producing.

What counts as a promise

A single physical facility in the United States, announced in January 2017 or later, with announced capital of $1 billion or more, or 200 or more direct jobs. One of ten sectors: aerospace and defense, auto assembly, battery, chemicals and plastics, food and beverage, machinery, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, solar, steel. Direct jobs only; regional, supported, induced and construction-phase job claims do not count.

How a row gets on the board

Source

The announcement and the latest status are collected as links, with a one-line summary. No figures are recorded yet.

Screen

The row is typed into a fixed set of columns and run through a schema check for malformed or out-of-range values. The check tests the shape of the row. It says nothing about whether the sources support the figures.

Verify

A person opens both source links and confirms the capital figure, the job count, and the dates.

Every row here has cleared Source and Screen. None has cleared Verify, so every row is marked tier P and every figure on this board should be read as extracted, not confirmed. 30 rows cleared the schema check with nothing left open. The other 132 cleared it with a note attached, most often a source that had to be read through a web archive, or a first output the source reports without dating. Each row carries the two links it was built from, so any figure here can be checked against them today.

Where this sits

This tracker is one of three IndustriousAF instruments. The Industrial Dollar Index measures manufacturing output per dollar spent building factories, and the Industrial Training Rating will score the programs that train people for factory work. All three are on the Data page.

Cite and source

IndustriousAF (2026). Promised vs. Produced Tracker. industriousaf.org/data/promised-vs-produced.
Rows, schema and build: github.com/industriousaf/promised-vs-produced-tracker

The rows, the schema that checks them and the build that turns them into this page are on GitHub, which is the source of truth for this instrument.