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Right now, the biggest stories for defense tech: Pentagon uses finance and partnerships to rebuild supply chains; Congress and Pentagon clash over defense dollars and reform; Services race to field drones and launched effects faster — and 2 more. Real stories, real sources, updated every few hours. Not generated guesses.
todayThe Pentagon is leaning harder into industrial-base shaping: Lockheed partnering with GM Defense, DOD lending into rare earth processing, invoking the Defense Production Act, and expanding production help across programs. These signals show a push to de-risk supply chains and scale domestic manufacturing capacity.
Draft a post from this →Congress and service leaders are wrestling over topline spending, NDAA provisions, and faster acquisition. This includes FY27 budget growth debates, Senate NDAA filing, Pentagon spending pushback, right-to-repair reform, special capital and equity-stake limits, and military benefits provisions.
Draft a post from this →The services and partners are rapidly fielding unmanned and launched-effect capabilities across air, maritime, and counter-UAS missions. Signals include DIU-backed Navy drone programs, Army launched effects from Black Hawks and landing craft, autonomous systems watchdog scrutiny, allied UUV deliveries, and new NATO counter-UAS efforts.
Draft a post from this →Several signals cluster around long-range strike and layered defense: B-52 radar modernization, a B-52 crash during radar testing, hypersonic programs such as Dark Eagle and Blackbeard, European HGV work, missile-defense analysis, and Ukraine’s anti-ballistic efforts. The theme is survivability and strike competition in an increasingly contested air domain.
Draft a post from this →A concentrated space-modernization thread spans responsive launch, launch-site upgrades, classified missions, GPS constellation buys, and new orbital-data-center concepts. DARPA’s tactically responsive space work, Space Launch Complex-6 demolition and modernization, GPS IIIF procurement, and SpaceX launching classified missions all fit the same strategic arc.
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