U.S. unemployment rose 23% in the last year! 🚨 From 3.5% to 4.3%. Politics aside, what do you suspect are the real causes for this change?

Breaking Out of Acquisition’s Iron Triangle by Dr. LaPlante nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2024/…

COMMENTARY: Breaking Out of Acquisition’s ‘Iron Triangle’ | Insight by Dr. William LaPlante | #EmergingTechETI Emerging Technologies Institute

Not much has changed among the Top 100 defense market leaders defensenews.com/opinion/2024/0…

.NASA says The Boeing Company Starliner astronauts maycome home via SpaceX in 2025! nytimes.com/2024/08/07/sci…

Random idea: The DoD should include an infographic in its budget documents for each major acquisition program. It would visually articulate the mission impact, performance, benefits, and quantities. Show how it doubles the range of legacy systems, accelerates decisions from

Today’s space leaders cannot be overwhelmed with fear just because our country faces a slightly new type of threat. We must remember the fundamentals of military strategy, because most of them have not changed since first penned by Sun Tzu about 2,500 years ago. What has

A defense acquisition banger from Madeline Zimmerman, summary via Pete Modigliani. behindthefront.substack.com/p/the-law-the-…

.DoD CTO reveals five more funded RDER projects Known 1. High-Altitude Balloons 2. Family of Integrated Targeting Cells New 1. Global Autonomous Recon Craft (GARC) 2. MQ-9 Enhancements 3. Global Thunder 4. Octopus 5. Maritime Targeting Cell - Afloat breakingdefense.com/2024/08/exclus…

This will be the first spacewalk by a commercial company and the furthest from Earth anyone has traveled in over half a century!

We are thrilled to welcome former Congressman Mike Gallagher to help lead our defense business as we enter the next stage of growth as a software prime. “Mike’s unique talents have helped to shape U.S. policy towards our adversaries. I am delighted he is joining Palantir, and am

Quarterhorse Mk 1 wrapped low speed taxi testing this week. Since completing the first full throttle, max afterburner engine runs in late June, we’ve been knocking out test points as the vehicle continues to mature and our testing cadence accelerates. The melding of vehicle

This stunning chart shows the profound impact of the Last Supper. When the Berlin Wall fell ONLY 6% of Department of Defense 🇺🇸 spend went to defense companies. The rest went to company with commercial and government business -- companies like Ford, Chrysler, Kodak, General Mills.

3 Mind-Blowing Stats That Could Send NVIDIA Shares to All-Time Highs - 24/7 Wall St. apple.news/As5J1UpqfRsWv3…

How walking in the woods changes your brain nautil.us/can-trees-heal…

“To have this class of new champions who have all cut their teeth in Tesla & SpaceX & see the world in completely different ways, it’s providing a huge amount of energy internally for us as we build for them,” Shyam Sankar said. Excellent profile on Palantir’s legendary CTO.👇🏻

JUST IN: US manufacturing has officially contracted for the 5th consecutive month, to 47.2 points. The ISM manufacturing PMI index missed expectations of 47.5 points for last month. New orders fell to 44.6 points from 47.4 in July, experiencing contraction for the 3rd straight

The U.S. Army Thinks It Can Build Software Better than Silicon Valley: Good Luck with That by American Enterprise Institute Bill Greenwalt aei.org/foreign-and-de…

Oversight, Delegation, and Assuming Responsibility An empowered culture prioritizes learning through trial and error, decentralized control, experimentation, spontaneity first, and embrace of risk and uncertainty. This implies a certain degree of autonomy, to include the

The Government Accountability Office estimates the federal government loses between $233 billion to $521 billion annually to fraud based on data from 2018 - 2022. That’s ~2% of America’s GDP stolen every year & a trillion dollars lost for those years🫠.