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The Battery Found a Better Customer Than the Car

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

Oct 26. 20263 min read
The Startup Moved Into the Prime's Factory

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

Oct 25. 20263 min read
The Chipmaker Became the Refiner's Banker

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

Oct 24. 20263 min read
The Ten Year Order Buys Certainty, Not Jets

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

Oct 23. 20263 min read
China Is Selling Access, Not Metal

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

Oct 22. 20263 min read
The Constellation Has a Disposal Bill

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

Oct 21. 20263 min read
The Cheapest Shot Is Not a Missile

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

Oct 20. 20263 min read
The Fuel Nobody Budgets For

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

Oct 19. 20263 min read
America Lost the Packaging, Not the Chip

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

Oct 18. 20263 min read
The Hole in the Magazine Is Explosives

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

Oct 17. 20263 min read
The Rocket Motor Monopoly Is Breaking

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

Oct 16. 20263 min read
In Ground Vehicles, Weight Is the Cost

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

Oct 15. 20263 min read

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