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Roper Sees High-Low Mix for Hypersonic Missiles. A slice: “We could carry more of them on a bomber, but we also could carry them on […]

US Air Force bails on Mattis-era fighter jet readiness goal. Abandoned 80 percent mission-capable rates. Let’s say you increase force structure to 386 squadrons at […]

‘I Could Solve Most of Your Problems’: Eric Schmidt’s Pentagon Offensive. New report says SLS rocket managers concerned about fuel leaks. NASA invested 10 years […]

DoD officials are extremely aware, almost to the point of paranoia, that even discussing the issue of NRO potentially being subsumed by the Space Force […]

U.S. judge puts Amazon challenge to Pentagon JEDI contract on hold. Amazon “likely” to succeed on protest started in November. Time for DoD to cancel […]

Master list of 120+ Covid-19 innovation initiatives and opportunities. The fiscal multiplier during World War II. Here it is: “0.25, implying an aggregate multiplier of […]

Coronavirus hits defense contractor jobs. Boeing’s Puget Sound shutdown affects 70,000 workers and the P-8 and KC-46 programs. GE cut 2,600 employees (10%). Textron furloughed […]

Trump orders General Motors to make ventilators under Defense Production Act. What did it achieve? “The order does not change GM’s previously announced plans or […]

SecNav Modly wants to reduce spending over 5 years by $40 billion to pump shipbuilding and readiness. Here’s how ComNavOps would go about it. Includes […]

Will Roper on the Air Force pitch bowl: “Post SXSW cancellation, we changed our Pitch Bowl in Austin to a YouTube Live event. Results were […]

More delays ahead? Amazon ‘Quite Likely’ to Prove Pentagon Made an Evaluation Error in JEDI Cloud Contract, Judge Says. So much for the economies of […]

“The Pentagon is seeking $696 million in fiscal year 2021 for a series of [eight] pilot programs designed to fund software through a single budget […]

Blue Origin Fact Sheet on New Glenn, Engine Development. “To date, Blue Origin has invested an unprecedented $2.5 billion into the development… the seven engines […]

U.S. Space Force organizational plan delivered to Congress. And here’s more on that: “Eventually, the Space Development Agency will report to the U.S. Space Force… […]