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Pentagon Shakes Up Leadership While Army Modernizes Electronic Warfare Capabilities

Defense Indus­try Week­ly Roundup Team, it’s been anoth­er event­ful week in the DoD, with major lead­er­ship changes at the Pen­ta­gon, sig­nif­i­cant mod­ern­iza­tion efforts in elec­tron­ic war­fare, and some con­cern­ing devel­op­ments in weapons test­ing over­sight. Let’s dive into what’s been hap­pen­ing.… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Space Industry Weekly: Starship Success, China’s Launch Ambitions, and the Golden Dome Initiative

Hey every­one, Austin here with your week­ly space indus­try roundup. What a week it’s been! From SpaceX final­ly break­ing their Star­ship los­ing streak to major devel­op­ments in mis­sile defense and some fas­ci­nat­ing moves in the com­mer­cial satel­lite sec­tor, there’s plen­ty… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Space Industry Weekly: Launch Records Shatter While Military Space Takes Center Stage

Team, here with your week­ly space indus­try roundup. This past week has been absolute­ly packed with devel­op­ments that are reshap­ing both com­mer­cial and mil­i­tary space oper­a­tions. From SpaceX hit­ting triple dig­its to the Space Force prepar­ing for orbital com­bat, let’s… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Defense Industry Weekly: Major Shifts in Military Tech, Procurement, and Security

This past week brought sig­nif­i­cant devel­op­ments across the defense indus­tri­al base, from rev­o­lu­tion­ary mis­sile defense ini­tia­tives to con­cern­ing secu­ri­ty rev­e­la­tions about our cloud infra­struc­ture. As some­one who’s spent decades ana­lyz­ing the inter­sec­tion of tech­nol­o­gy and nation­al defense, I’m see­ing pat­terns… con­tin­ue read­ing »

DoD Industry Weekly: Procurement Trends and Strategic Shifts Shape Defense Landscape

As we nav­i­gate the com­plex­i­ties of the defense indus­tri­al land­scape in August 2025, sev­er­al key devel­op­ments are reshap­ing how the Depart­ment of Defense approach­es pro­cure­ment, indus­tri­al base man­age­ment, and strate­gic part­ner­ships. This week’s analy­sis reveals crit­i­cal trends that every defense… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Space Industry Weekly: Nuclear Power Takes Center Stage as Commercial Space Regulations Get Major Overhaul

Good morn­ing, Team. This week has major devel­op­ments in nuclear space tech­nol­o­gy, sweep­ing reg­u­la­to­ry changes, and some sig­nif­i­cant wins and loss­es in the launch sec­tor. Let’s dive in! Trump Admin­is­tra­tion Shakes Up Space Reg­u­la­tions The biggest news this week came from… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Golden Dome For America Industry Summit: Defense Leaders Rally Industry for America’s Next-Generation Missile Shield

Huntsville, AL – The Mis­sile Defense Agency (MDA) host­ed its long-await­­ed Gold­en Dome Indus­try Day this past week, mark­ing a piv­otal moment in what offi­cials are call­ing the most ambi­tious home­land defense ini­tia­tive since Ronald Rea­gan’s Strate­gic Defense Ini­tia­tive. The… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Defense Week in Review: Supply Chain Security, DOGE Impact, and Strategic Modernization

Team, the easy dis­cus­sion is to talk about last week’s Space Mis­sile Defense Agen­cy’s Sym­po­sium and the Gold­en Dome for Amer­i­ca’s Indus­try Sum­mit (which was held in a hock­ey are­na that was 3/4 filled with the DIB). Still, I am… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Space Industry Weekly Wrap: DoD’s Resilient Comms Push, NASA-Russia Thaw, and China’s Rapid Acceleration

Hey Team, here is your week­ly space indus­try brief­ing. What I’ve been track­ing this week are devel­op­ments that paint a pic­ture of an indus­try increas­ing­ly dri­ven by nation­al secu­ri­ty pri­or­i­ties — from major DoD con­tracts to diplo­mat­ic break­throughs, and some… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Pentagon Pivots: Technical Debt, DOGE Cuts, and Congressional Oversight Shape Defense Landscape

The Depart­ment of Defense con­tin­ues to nav­i­gate a com­plex land­scape of mod­ern­iza­tion chal­lenges, bud­get pres­sures, and con­gres­sion­al over­sight as we move deep­er into fis­cal year 2025. This week’s devel­op­ments under­score the crit­i­cal inter­sec­tion of tech­nol­o­gy trans­for­ma­tion, fis­cal respon­si­bil­i­ty, and warfight­er… con­tin­ue read­ing »

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