HeyJaredWilliam C. Greenwalt
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- Sep 18, 2026
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The Pentagon Struggles with the Ghost of Rickover (opens the original)
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America’s greatest national security advantage is the breadth and vitality of its free-market economy. The Pentagon should be drawing on all of it: established manufacturers, commercial technology companies, a rebuilt middle tier, and disruptive entrepreneurs competing to deliver better weapons faster and more affordably. For more than 50 years, Washington has instead maintained accounting and procurement rules that divide American industry into two camps: companies organized around government c
The Pentagon’s War on Commercial Defense Investment (opens the original)
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A memo signed by Deputy Secretary Feinberg on “Supplier Cost and Pricing Transparency” may be the worst and most damaging piece of defense acquisition and industrial policy written in the last 50 years. It essentially returns defense contracting to the dysfunctional 1970s. One can understand the Pentagon’s dissatisfaction with the traditional defense industrial base. But what it has done in this memo is to overturn all of the acquisition reforms put in place since the 1986 Packard Commission des
The Real Defense Spending Deadbeats: Spain or the US Congress? (opens the original)
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As Congress takes its August recess, these are trying times for defense. With so many moving budgetary parts, one can be forgiven for confusion about what is actually going on. There is Trumpian rhetoric of $1.5 trillion in new defense spending split into mandatory and discretionary tranches, Reconciliation 3.0 and 4.0, an Iran supplemental, the National Defense Authorization Act, traditional defense appropriations bills, continuing resolutions (CRs) that are clean or contain anomalies, and of c
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