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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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
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