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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
Defense Venture Capital Has a Duration Problem

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

Sep 20. 20263 min read
The Pentagon Started Buying Factories, Not Satellites

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

Sep 19. 20263 min read
The Catapult That Was Already Half Built

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

Sep 18. 20263 min read
Inventory Is a Strategy Again

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

Sep 17. 20263 min read
The Pentagon Bought a Data Layer, Not an AI

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

Sep 16. 20263 min read
Arms Exports Grew, but Not the Part You Think

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

Sep 15. 20263 min read
The Germanium Deadline

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,

Sep 14. 20263 min read
The Army Is Building Its Own Power Plants

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

Sep 13. 20263 min read
The Cables Under Everything

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

Sep 12. 20263 min read
Missile Warning Went From Exquisite to Disposable

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

Sep 11. 20263 min read
The Crane Nobody Can Build in America

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

Sep 10. 20263 min read

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