Here’s why the nation’s next generation of defense companies keep choosing to build in Utah

They’re no Lockheed Martin or Northrop Grumman, but these smaller, innovative companies are drawing defense contracts, and Utah is luring them in.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Vector Defense in Bluffdale on Thursday, April 30, 2026.

By  Paighten Harkins

 | July 8, 2026, 6:00 a.m.

| Updated: July 13, 2026, 2:02 p.m.