ALLENTOWN, Pa. – A local congressman announced millions of dollars in funding for the construction of the Mack Defense M917A3 Heavy Dump Trucks.<\/p>\n
Congressman Ryan Mackenzie (PA-07), representing the Lehigh Valley and the Poconos, said $47 million in programmatic funding was secured.<\/p>\n
The announcement follows the signing of the 2026 Department of Defense Appropriations Act by President Trump.<\/p>\n
Mackenzie said Mack Defense\u2019s HDT line is produced in Allentown and supports 50 high-skilled local jobs.<\/p>\n
Mack Defense has manufactured more than 500 of the M917A3 HDTS, helping to provide logistical support for the U.S. military, Mackenzie\u2019s office said in a news release Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Mackenzie said the investment will enable the Allentown facility to meet the minimum sustainment rate for continued operations.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLocally manufactured heavy dump trucks are essential to meeting the U.S. Military\u2019s 21st century logistical needs,\u201d said Mackenzie.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re proud to have secured this critical investment, which will continue to support our national defense, domestic supply lines, and local manufacturing jobs. This appropriation will ensure that our highly skilled technicians in the Lehigh Valley and the Poconos can continue providing superior equipment to our armed forces.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – A local congressman announced millions of dollars in funding for the construction of the Mack…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,153,155,154,50829,157,50828,50827,12675,1582,40098],"class_list":{"0":"post-105152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-bethlehem","10":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","11":"tag-bethlehem-news","12":"tag-department-of-defense-appropriations-act","13":"tag-lehigh-valley","14":"tag-m917a3-heavy-dump-truck","15":"tag-mack-defense","16":"tag-military-funding","17":"tag-ryan-mackenzie","18":"tag-u-s-military"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}