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The Battery Found a Better Customer Than the Car
In the third week of October a solid state battery developer announced plans for a hundred megawatt hour cell production line, targeting

The Startup Moved Into the Prime's Factory
In the middle of October a major missile maker announced a three hundred million dollar expansion of its Texas plant, part of

The Chipmaker Became the Refiner's Banker
In the third week of October one of the three large memory manufacturers said it would put strategic funding into a materials

The Ten Year Order Buys Certainty, Not Jets
In late October the Pentagon and the prime contractor behind the F-35 agreed on a framework covering at least eight hundred

China Is Selling Access, Not Metal
Two things happened to rare earth supply in the second week of October. European and Chinese trade officials met in Beijing and

The Constellation Has a Disposal Bill
In early October the agency building the military's low orbit satellite architecture did something new. It awarded a combined eight

The Cheapest Shot Is Not a Missile
At the Army's big trade show in the middle of October one of the primes showed a layered air defense

The Fuel Nobody Budgets For
In the middle of October the operator of the only commercial uranium enrichment plant in the United States said production had started

America Lost the Packaging, Not the Chip
In the second week of October the largest contract chipmaker in the world signed a five year, two billion dollar agreement with

The Hole in the Magazine Is Explosives
A county in western Kentucky is now the site of roughly a billion dollars of explosives construction. One contract, placed two years

The Rocket Motor Monopoly Is Breaking
Four things happened to American solid rocket motor supply in the space of about a week. A prime contractor placed a two

In Ground Vehicles, Weight Is the Cost
In early October the Army began live fire testing of its next main battle tank design, about ten months after the first
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