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The much anticipated Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) v1.0 has been released! It “contains five maturity processes and 171 cybersecurity best practices progressing across five […]

BAE Systems rallies after snapping up U.S. defense companies. “… it announced it was buying Collins Aerospace’s military global positioning system business for $1.925 billion […]

US Army cancels current effort to replace Bradley vehicle. Is Congess purposefully underfunding Section 804 MTA programs? “Last month, Congress hacked funding for the OMFV prototyping […]

The Story of China’s Aircraft Carrier Launch Is Flat Out Strange. A slice: “… the carrier was actually a rogue acquisition for the Chinese military […]

Powerful Example: F-22 Program Office uses DevOps on a Hardware Platform. Recommended. On agile = level of effort: “To properly match the contractor effort with […]

Chinese Navy Sets New World Record, Launching 23 New Surface Warships In One Year. Lots of pictures. Meanwhile, back in the US… Pentagon proposes big […]

How Big is the Space Economy? Probably around $415 billion, 79 percent is commercial. Another breakdown is 58 percent consumer services, 33 percent manufacturing and […]

Did America Forget How to Make the H-Bomb? “… officials at the National Nuclear Security Administration realized they couldn’t produce an essential material known as […]

How Russia Improved its Military With An Economy the Size of Spain. Subtitle: “The Russians spend the highest share of their military budget on procurement […]

Elon Musk says NASA is ripping off SpaceX. (Bloomberg video.) Point is that NASA wants to pay SpaceX $55 million for same thing that it […]

How Anduril’s Palmer Luckey plans to take on Boeing and Lockheed Martin. We’ll see if Marc Andreessen’s theory that good software firms can learn hardware […]

NASA report finds Boeing seat prices are 60% higher than SpaceX. A slice: “[Boeing] has received a total of $4.82 billion from NASA over the […]

How Lockheed Martin Ventures manages its early-stage $200M fund. Was established in 2007, returning $80M on the first $100M invested. A slice: “We started realizing […]

One view of the F-35: Pentagon And Lockheed Martin Agree To Big Cost Reduction On F-35 Fighters. A slice: “The most common variant, to be […]

Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10 Billion JEDI Contract, Thwarting Amazon. “In 20 years of covering tech, I’ve never seen a battle for any type of contract […]