Pentagon
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PentagonHegseth Calls For Rapidly Fielding New Tech, Taking Hard Look At Legacy Programs
New Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Friday reiterated his focus on “rebuilding the military” will include rapidly fielding new technologies and scrutinizing the effectiveness of legacy programs for future […]
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PentagonDOGE May Recommend Contract Terminations, Contract Experts Say
President Trump’s administration took a page from an unlikely book–that of former President Obama, in creating the inaptly named Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). To get around the public meeting/comment […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyUSTR Began Section 301 Investigation into Chinese Semiconductors in December
On Dec. 23 last year, less than a month before the handover of presidential power, the Biden administration’s U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Katherine Tai, announced an investigation under Section 301 […]
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Air ForceNo Answers from Pentagon on Deportation Costs Nor Share for DoD/DHS
As the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), its Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and DoD undertake what could be the deportation of up to 13 million persons in the United […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyTrump Preparing Executive Order On ‘Iron Dome For America,’ Hegseth Says
New Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Monday that President Trump is preparing an executive order related to building an “Iron Dome for America.” Hegseth offered the remarks as he […]
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Business/FinancialGeneral Atomics Aeronautical Systems Gets Behind Musk’s DOGE
Emphasizing its role as a challenger to the status quo, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) developer and manufacturer General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GASI) is offering its support to President Trump’s government […]
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PentagonAs Some Top Defense Companies Stay Mum, Lockheed Martin Says It Will Abide by Trump Executive Order on DEI
A number of top defense companies, including Northrop Grumman [NOC], RTX [RTX], and L3Harris Technologies [LHX] have been mum on President Trump’s “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” executive […]
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Air ForcePentagon Wants to Speed Parts Repair for F-35 As Part of Sustainment Cost Reduction
As the Pentagon prepares to hand over contractor sustainment of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 to the Air Force and the Department of the Navy by the latter part of […]
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Business/FinancialKubasik All In On DOGE, Offers Recommendations To Ease DoD Regulations, Speed Acquisitions
Lauding what he says were successes of the first Trump administration to streamline the Pentagon’s bureaucracy, L3Harris Technologies [LHX] Chairman and CEO Chris Kubasik this week offered recommendations to the […]
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CongressSecDef Nom Hegseth Spars With Dems, Offers Acquisition Reform View At Contentious Hearing
At his confirmation hearing on Tuesday where he faced Democratic scrutiny over his sexual assault allegations and prior comments, Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth offered a view into his plans […]