Marcus Cole
The Bottleneck Is an Audit Appointment, Not a Factory
On November 10, self-attestation ends for a large slice of the defense industrial base. That is the date Phase 2 of
The Next Buyer of Military-Grade Drone Detection Is a City Hall
The Department of Homeland Security finalized a $500 million allocation through FEMA this year specifically for state and local counter-drone capability,
A Production Line, Not Another Prototype
The Navy's Orca extra-large unmanned underwater vehicle, an 85-foot uncrewed submarine built by Boeing, has moved this year
Knowing Which Aircraft Breaks Before It Does
C3 AI received a $13 million task order this year, the first drawn against a $450 million ceiling contract, to expand its
Air Traffic Control for a Place With No Roads
The Space Force picked fourteen companies this year for a ten-year, $1.8 billion contract vehicle called Andromeda, built to track,
The Government Check as a Bonus, Not the Business Case
IperionX picked up $47.1 million in Defense Department funding this year to expand its Virginia titanium manufacturing campus sevenfold, targeting 1,
The Honest Timeline for Rebuilding Heavy Industry
The Army's target is 100,000 rounds of 155mm artillery ammunition a month by the end of this year, up
The Infrastructure Budget Just Reached the Ocean Floor
A bipartisan bill introduced in Congress this year, the Strategic Subsea Cables Act, is aimed at a piece of infrastructure most people
The Signal Underneath Every Other Signal
Parsons picked up a $40 million Army contract this month covering hardware development, radio frequency spectrum exploitation, and software-defined electromagnetic warfare
The Tailwind Nobody Had to Break Ground to Get
The United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia finalized reforms this year that lift export licensing requirements on a wide range of
Automating the Hardest, Ugliest Mile Left
The Army activated a new command in February, the Capability Program Executive Office for Mission Autonomy, and its first major solicitation is
Accrediting the World's AI Instead of Building Its Own
In May, the Pentagon signed agreements with seven of the largest technology companies in the country, including Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Nvidia, and