The works today

November 2026

What Mishawaka builds: As of November 2026 the Mishawaka Manufacturing Campus — 96 acres on McKinley Highway, with its test track — builds two vehicles. Plant 1 builds the HMMWV, in production on the same ground since 1984, for United States and export customers under the contract course above, including the August 2026 IDIQ running through 2028. Plant 2 builds the JLTV A2, in the contested ramp told in the JLTV entries: the company says vehicles have been delivered since late 2025 and full production comes in 2027; the congressional record says the line runs roughly two years behind its contract schedule with some 2,000 vehicles in arrears. Both statements stand as printed.

The plant's ordinary rhythm, documented: The most current primary document in the record is a shop paper. A company memorandum dated 23 September 2026, posted by UAW Local 5, informed all Mishawaka Manufacturing Campus hourly employees that HMMWV production at Plant 1 would cease temporarily at the end of the shift on Sunday, 27 September 2026, with all employees laid off for the week of 28 September unless notified to work, and all scheduled to return on Monday, 5 October 2026; a second memorandum of 24 September offered voluntary work during the layoff week at the campus and the company's test facility. A planned one-week production interruption, in the company's own words, is the present state of the Humvee line as documented: running, and pausing on schedule.

Hiring and posture: The company is hiring: postings dated late October and early November 2026 seek production employees at Mishawaka "to support our HMMWV and JLTV A2 production," with new-hire production rates carried in the aggregator listings at $21.70 an hour under the heading "contract wages have just increased" — printed at the strength of aggregator-carried postings. The company itself is KPS-owned, privately held, and publishes no financials; a trade profile of October 2026 puts its employment at roughly 2,000 company-wide, as an approximation, and its main plant at Mishawaka. The headquarters remains in South Bend, where its telling belongs. And beside the campus, the former Commercial Assembly Plant at 12900 McKinley — the building that held the H2, the MV-1, the R-Class, and two electric ventures — stands in GEM's ownership since June 2025, its present use undocumented in the record pulled for this section: the open end of the GM chapter, on the same highway as its closed one.

Sources:

1. AM General internal memoranda of 23 and 24 September 2026, as posted by UAW Local 5 — the Plant 1 HMMWV interruption of 28 September – 2 October 2026 and the return of 5 October.
2. Company job postings as carried by employment aggregators, October–November 2026 — HMMWV and JLTV A2 production hiring at Mishawaka (46545/46546), the new-hire rates as printed.
3. Trade company profile, October 2026 — KPS ownership since 2020, the approximate company-wide employment, Mishawaka as main plant; Army and company campus descriptions — the 96-acre Mishawaka Manufacturing Campus.