Groq builds application-specific AI accelerators called Language Processing Units to deliver fast inference. Founded in 2016 by former Google engineer Jonathan Ross, the Mountain View company became a unicorn after raising a $300M Series C.
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russia
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
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policy
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.
Origins & Engineering Mandate Gave Birth To A Modular Glock Pistol
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essays
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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congress
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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armed conflict
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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RESEARCH
ABL Space Systems → Long Wall
acquisition
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.