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Hegseth plans ‘Autonomous Warfare Command’ (opens the original)
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The Pentagon will create a combatant command to lead its efforts to develop and deploy robotic weapons, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday in a speech peppered with Bible verses and insults to the press. The new Autonomous Warfare Command, or AUTOWARCOM, will be “a new four-star combatant command with service-like authorities built to scale autonomous and robotic capabilities across the joint force,” Hegseth said. It is to stand up by Oct. 1, 2027, according to a memo released after h
Defense Business Brief: End-of-fiscal-year advice for founders; Navy drone boats; Powerus to go public (opens the original)
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WASHINGTON—The Pentagon’s comptroller has a bit of advice for tech makers and founders who want to do business with the military: Make tech that troops like, find out who can buy it for them, and hire someone who knows how things work. . “Having the users like your products is incredibly necessary. That's a given. But it's the program offices and the [portfolio acquisition executives, or] PAEs who really have the power to make you successful,” Jules Hurst, the Defense Department’s chief financia
US Government Benchmark Report 2026 (opens the original)
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The US Government acquisition system rests on foundations that few others can match. Decades of investment in policy, workforce development, procedural discipline and professional standards have produced a system of exceptional sophistication and reach. Most governments – and many corporations – would envy it. These foundations are an asset, and this report should be read not only as a study on their current state, but also how to build on them. US Government contracting teams understand the nee
Pentagon update on National Defense Strategy cites progress, omits key threats (opens the original)
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The Pentagon’s latest report about its implementation of the National Defense Strategy notes progress on accelerating weapons production, cutting red tape, and persuading European governments to boost defense spending—but is light on problems such as Russia’s increasing aggression in Europe and the high cost of U.S. wars in the Middle East. The report to Congress, dated Sept. 22 but pushed out on Defense Department social media on Tuesday, argues that the Trump administration has made “significa
Army awards counterdrone contracts worth more than $4B (opens the original)
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Military drone and counterdrone demand is booming amid a rush to spend funds before the end of the fiscal year—but the Pentagon’s drone marketplace is making it a little easier, defense officials said. “These contracts are available to everybody. And so what we've seen across the department is a surge of end-of-year requests for procurement,” Brig. Gen. Matthew Ross, who leads the Pentagon’s Joint Interagency Task Force 401, told reporters Tuesday. “End-of-year spending is nothing new inside of
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