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Lauren C. Williams

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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Lauren C. Williams

    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

  2. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Lauren C. Williams

    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

  3. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Lauren C. Williams

    The Navy’s public shipyards will take more decades to repair, GAO says (opens the original)

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    The Navy's effort to fix and improve its shipyards will take decades longer and cost billions more than initially planned—and Congress has not been systematically kept apprised of the growing complexity of the Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program, the Government Accountability Office has found. “Without a full picture of how much has been spent, what remains to be funded, and what risks may affect SIOP progress, Congress could make consequential decisions for SIOP based on incomplete inf

  4. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Lauren C. Williams

    Defense Business Brief: Here comes the quantum boom; GDIT’s perspective; and Sec. 889 (opens the original)

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    The benefits of quantum technology could hit the mainstream sooner than you think—at least that’s what one company is aiming for. “We’re actually really hoping in the next year or two [to] release these as products that people can buy and integrate into their cybersecurity protocols,” said Mehdi Namazi, co-founder and chief science officer of the quantum networking company Qunnect. But the products aren’t “that futuristic.” Quantum is usually discussed as being able to one day break encryption a

  5. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Lauren C. Williams

    Space Force braces for stalled progress amid lack of full funding (opens the original)

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    NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Space Force modernization efforts could slow if Congress doesn’t pass a full budget at the end of the year, the service’s leaders said. “We're on this ramp-up, right, consistent with our overall strategy and the recognition that the space domain is a critical domain, in and of itself, but also for the joint force,” Erich Hernandez-Baquero, the Space Force’s top buyer, told reporters Tuesday. “Now we're going to run into [fiscal year 2027]—and you saw that our budget request

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