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Russia Flexes Naval Muscle
The future Maritime OE does not offer acccess and is a highway of robots and things like a future flying car metropolis scene
Noah Smith
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The FY-2026 NDAA: A broad reset for the Pentagon
Senate’s FY‑2026 defense bill focuses on AI, cyber, space, software, and sea power.
Glock 47 MOS: Engineering Design & Modular Architecture
Origins & Engineering Mandate Gave Birth To A Modular Glock Pistol
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When I was an advisor in Iraq in 2012, I was implementing a fairy tale policy while Iraq was drifting toward civil war
Future of ADVANA data platform unclear as Pentagon halts AI contract
Another ID/IQ bites the dust as contracting teams are sparse in the DOD
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Lawmakers Press Pentagon to Prove It Can Buy Weapons at ‘the Speed of Relevance’
A rare bipartisan hearing put defense acquisition culture—and a $833 billion budget—under the microscope.
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Front Lines: Explosions Rock Moscow; Uneasy Ceasefire in Syria
Massive explosions rocked Moscow as Ukrainian drones were intercepted and flights temporarily halted, while a U.S.-brokered ceasefire brought a tenuous calm to Syria's Sweida province after deadly sectarian clashes and airstrikes.
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ABL Space Systems → Long Wall
PMs/TPOCs: 7 Essential Steps to Access Reconciliation Defense Funding Opportunity
A process to help your projects benefit from re-authorized funds, elevate your programs, and navigate a seldom-understood bureaucratic process. There are seven steps that the PM team and the vendor team can take as a combined effort to elevate their work.
Denied by Design
Is the Pentagon planning to lose? A Strategic Appraisal of PLA Counter-Space Doctrine and Implications for U.S. Tactical Operations
"The Contracts Are In There!"
Please watch the video before you read. The same attributes that drive some to become founders, raise capital, and the methods to get there, are misapplied to the national security markets
Some thoughts brought to the keyboard on Fourth July 2025
This is an era of apparent high patriotism but compromised commitment to defense technology. Let’s see who’s left after the locusts migrate.