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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

Defense Venture Capital Has a Duration Problem
Defense technology startups raised about fourteen and a half billion dollars in the first five months of this year, which is more

The Pentagon Started Buying Factories, Not Satellites
At the Space Symposium in April the head of Space Systems Command told the satellite industry what he wanted from it in

The Catapult That Was Already Half Built
A presidential memorandum signed in the middle of August gives the Secretary of War sixty days to deliver a plan for replacing

Inventory Is a Strategy Again
The National Defense Stockpile has around $2 billion in its transaction fund from last year's legislation, the department signalled roughly

The Pentagon Bought a Data Layer, Not an AI
In July the Department of War awarded Accenture Federal Services a five-year task order worth up to $821 million to provide

Arms Exports Grew, but Not the Part You Think
American international defense sales reached $331.2 billion in fiscal 2025, up from $318.7 billion the year before. That is roughly

The Germanium Deadline
The current defense authorization act requires that optical glass and infrared systems sourced from a short list of countries, China among them,

The Army Is Building Its Own Power Plants
At the end of August the Army named five installations that will get nuclear microreactors and the five companies that will build

The Cables Under Everything
A bipartisan bill introduced in February would put at least ten full-time State Department staff on subsea cable security, create sanctions

Missile Warning Went From Exquisite to Disposable
In mid-July the Space Development Agency awarded $1.75 billion for thirty-six more missile-tracking satellites, $955 million to L3Harris

The Crane Nobody Can Build in America
The Port of Philadelphia has $80 million in federal money to electrify its Tioga Marine Terminal and budgeted about $47 million of
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