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2015–2026 · FOREIGN MILITARY SALES AT BOUNDARY SIZE; GRANGER TESTED IN THE FEDERAL RECORD
The pattern is a local desk running foreign military sales programme by programme, and the county has exactly one such desk. It is AM General’s, and its geography is printed on its own awards: the work is performed in South Bend (place of performance South Bend, IN 46617, on the current HMMWV delivery order) and the vehicles are built in Mishawaka — the banked businesses leg mentions the roughly 600-acre AM General area only as the base a proposed tax-increment district would expand, and the plant is Mishawaka’s, not this ground’s. The book itself, programme by programme from the award record: in July 2015 the Department of Defense announced a 372,936,476-dollar firm-fixed-price multi-year foreign military sales contract to AM General for up to 2,082 HMMWVs with spare parts, the customer countries named in the announcement being Afghanistan, Iraq, Kenya, Lebanon, Ukraine and Tunisia, the work to be built in Mishawaka with completion estimated 29 April 2016. In August 2017 came the five-year FMS requirements contract — up to 11,560 new HMMWVs, ceiling 2.2 billion dollars — under which orders worth more than 550 million dollars were announced that October for Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, Jordan, Slovenia, Bahrain, Colombia, Bosnia and Kenya, in variants from protected weapons carriers and cargo transporters to ambulances; the company’s own count puts more than 250,000 HMMWVs in service with more than 60 countries. The current delivery order (W912CH24F0229, awarded 22 August 2024, ceiling 298.45 million dollars for HMMWV and JLTV production) continues the same book line by line: funding actions for 224 HMMWVs for Ukraine (September 2025), 96 vehicles for Iraq (June 2025), 48 M1165s for Tunisia with spares for Tunisia and Ukraine, vehicles for Latvia and Lebanon — the Lebanon annex of September 2025 alone, 13,140,694 dollars, brought the cumulative contract value past 3.06 billion dollars. That is a foreign-military-sales book run from a local desk in every sense the floor pattern means — except that the desk, the plant and the place of performance all sit in Mishawaka and South Bend, across both of this ground’s lines.
The CDP test was run in the federal instruments themselves. Searches of SAM.gov and the FPDS-derived award record (including the GovTribe mirror of SAM/FPDS data) by recipient address and place of performance for Granger and ZIP 46530 return no foreign-military-sales award, no defence production contract, and no firm holding itself out as a defence exporter on this ground; the banked businesses roll’s firms — a lumber company, a car-wash chain, a design-build contractor, a brewery, a truss plant’s successor yard — hold no defence book in any record reached. The one Granger-addressed federal vendor the award mirrors do surface is a laboratory-instrument maker (listed in the federal vendor data at Granger, IN, under NAICS 334516, Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing) — a civilian-instrument listing, not a military-sales desk, and printed at exactly that size. A full enumerative FPDS/USASpending sweep by ZIP was attempted; the USASpending API did not return within the pass’s time budget, so the counted enumeration of every small federal award touching the ZIP is registered here as the row’s named gap, settler: the FPDS/USASpending award search by recipient-location and place-of-performance ZIP 46530, run to completion. The defence-book question itself — is there a Granger desk running foreign military sales? — is answered by the searches that did return: no. The Humvee book is the county’s, and it is somebody else’s.
Sources: U.S. Department of Defense contract announcement, July 2015 (the 372,936,476-dollar FMS contract; the six named countries; Mishawaka build); Army Technology and Military Trader reports, October 2017 (the 2.2-billion-dollar requirements contract; the 550-million-dollar order set; the nine named countries; 250,000 HMMWVs in 60-plus countries); GovTribe’s FPDS-derived record of delivery order W912CH24F0229 (place of performance South Bend, IN 46617; the Ukraine, Iraq, Tunisia, Latvia and Lebanon actions of 2025); AM General’s own releases (the 42-million-dollar domestic and international award set: Iraq, Afghanistan, Tunisia, Israel, Turkey, Kenya, Lebanon); SAM.gov / FPDS indexed searches and GovTribe vendor data for Granger, IN 46530 (no FMS award returned; the NAICS 334516 vendor listing); the banked businesses leg (the AM General area as boundary material).