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The Navy Went Shopping in the Workboat Yards

The Navy Went Shopping in the Workboat Yards

At the end of September the Navy placed production agreements for thirty medium unmanned surface vessels, ten each with three builders on

Oct 2. 20263 min read
Europe Is Buying American and Building It There

Europe Is Buying American and Building It There

European rearmament is usually described with a number in the hundreds of billions, and most of that number is notional fiscal space

Oct 1. 20263 min read
A Market Created by Statute

A Market Created by Statute

Until the first of July this year, no American state, local or tribal agency had legal authority to bring down a drone.

Sep 30. 20263 min read
Timing Is the Utility Nobody Owns

Timing Is the Utility Nobody Owns

Airline safety data assembled from more than three hundred operators shows satellite navigation signal loss rising from about twenty-eight events per

Sep 29. 20263 min read
A Plant Is Not Capacity

A Plant Is Not Capacity

An inspector general evaluation published in July found that a new artillery projectile plant in Texas, built at a cost of roughly

Sep 28. 20263 min read
The Government Built a Portfolio

The Government Built a Portfolio

In the middle of September the War Department committed four hundred and fifty million dollars to an American tungsten producer, taking redeemable

Sep 27. 20263 min read
A Continuing Resolution Is Industrial Policy

A Continuing Resolution Is Industrial Policy

The continuing resolution signed at the start of September funds the government into the second week of December. Its defense section does

Sep 26. 20263 min read
The Pentagon Is Rewriting How It Pays for Risk

The Pentagon Is Rewriting How It Pays for Risk

A memorandum signed in the middle of September by the Deputy Secretary of War sets out a schedule of deadlines for changing

Sep 25. 20263 min read
Machine Tool Orders Say Fewer, Bigger Machines

Machine Tool Orders Say Fewer, Bigger Machines

American manufacturing technology orders came in above six hundred million dollars in July, the fifth consecutive month above five hundred million, and

Sep 24. 20263 min read
The Maritime Plan Is Authorities, Not Money

The Maritime Plan Is Authorities, Not Money

The maritime action plan the White House published in February opens with a statistic that does most of the work. Less than

Sep 23. 20263 min read
Memory Now Clears at Data Center Prices

Memory Now Clears at Data Center Prices

Conventional memory contract prices roughly doubled in a single quarter this year, and the industry guided to another large increase in the

Sep 22. 20263 min read
A Seven Year Contract Is Collateral

A Seven Year Contract Is Collateral

In late July the War Department awarded Lockheed Martin a multiyear production contract for the PAC-3 missile segment enhancement interceptor worth

Sep 21. 20263 min read

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