The present state: what vehicle manufacture stands on Mishawaka ground

Verified November 2026

The military campus: Vehicle manufacture stands on Mishawaka ground today at one address-complex: AM General's Mishawaka Manufacturing Campus, where the Humvee line continues and the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle is in production under the follow-on contract awarded in February 2023 — a contract worth up to 8.6 billion dollars, the vehicles built, in the Senate delegation's announcement and the company's own release alike, at the Mishawaka campus, in a dedicated military production facility on its 96 acres, with deliveries that were to begin seventeen months after the award. The contract's course, the campus's employment — about 400 UAW Local 5 members on the union's 2025 contract record — and the JLTV A2 line itself stand in the AM General section; what this closing entry verifies, in November 2026, is the state of the ground: the campus is a working vehicle plant, and its two products are the Humvee and the JLTV.

The commercial plant: The other great Mishawaka vehicle plant, the former Commercial Assembly Plant at 12900 McKinley Highway — built for the Hummer H2, later the R-Class plant, then the SF Motors and Electric Last Mile property, then Mullen's — passed on 10 June 2025, under a federal-court judgment settlement, to the GEM Group's companies. No production at that plant is documented in the record pulled for this build since the transfer; its present use stands as a named gap in the AM General section, and it is carried here the same way. It is not counted as standing vehicle manufacture.

The state of the whole record: So the maker test that opened this section closes where the modern record says it must. Mishawaka's automobile manufacture began with a two-stroke luxury car in the first decade of the century, ran through a sleeve-valve successor and a one-season assembled six, fed the industry mats, cushions and seating fabrics for three decades from the rubber works, and stands today as military vehicle production on one campus — the brass-era makers gone a century, the parts lines gone with the rubber works in 1997, and the Humvee and JLTV lines carrying the city's manufacture into the present. Nothing else manufactures vehicles on Mishawaka ground in the record as verified in November 2026.

Sources:

1. Senator Todd Young's office, release on the JLTV follow-on award (February 2023), read first-hand — the contract worth up to $8.6 billion; "the vehicles will be built at the company's Mishawaka Manufacturing Campus in Indiana."
2. AM General, release of 23 February 2023, read first-hand — the JLTV produced in a dedicated military production facility at the 96-acre Mishawaka Manufacturing Campus, with an onsite test track; deliveries expected to begin seventeen months after contract award.
3. The AM General and Businesses sections of this history — the campus's present complex and the UAW Local 5 contract record of 2025; the Commercial Assembly Plant's course, the GEM Group settlement release of 10 June 2025, and that file's named gap on the plant's state since the transfer.