The United States federal department responsible for the armed forces and their procurement, referred to under this name in current U.S. government usage.
White House order routes federal services with over 100,000 yearly users through America.gov, using Login.gov as the one sign-in. Agencies keep custody of their records, so what gets concentrated is one credential that reaches every connected service.
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A $13B valuation on $500M of booked military contracts, co-led by a bank, a buyout firm and a venture fund, is what defense industrial capital looks like when it stops being venture capital.
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AeroVironment's $464.8m Enduring-HEL award covers dozens of 30-kilowatt LOCUST X3 units. The step that made the purchase possible was a Department of War safety agreement with the FAA, signed before anyone fired.
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ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government cleared Impact Level 5 and went live on a portal that has signed up more than 1.7 million of over 3 million defense staff in nine months. Claude, which beat Hegseth's blacklist in court, is still not listed.
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The Department of War took the third-party assessment requirement out of the November contract cycle and asked a task force to rethink the program. Suppliers now decide alone how much remediation to keep funding.
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The Department of War and a Pinnacle-managed fund are putting in $400 million each, which keeps the only US smelter-grade alumina plant running and pays for a gallium pilot that is still in testing and promising first metal this fall.
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Judge Rita Lin found the Pentagon's designation was retaliation for Anthropic's published usage limits. The sabotage theory behind it collapsed because nothing in the record explained how sabotage would work.
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The 2023 disclosure rules ask public companies to describe their cyber oversight without asking whether any director can judge it, and a 2025 field study finds that gap produces oversight that only looks like oversight.
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The Pentagon pulled the C3PAO certification deadline on July 13 and left Phase 1 self-assessment, SPRS scoring and DIBCAC spot checks exactly where they were.
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A quality-management certificate is a dull thing to announce. For silicon-carbon anodes it says the hard problem has moved from chemistry to repeatability.
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A $200 million round, two planned plants and revenue going from about $10 million to "low nine figures" put anti-drone hardware in the manufacturing bucket, not the science bucket.
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Kiteworks found 96% of defense contractors trust their self-attested SPRS score and 29% can substantiate it. The DFARS duty to attest accurately never stopped when the third-party audits did.
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Chris Kubasik gives up at least $45 million after a code-of-conduct finding, and keeps roughly $80 million in options and shares. The gap is the governance story.
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Framework agreements with Raytheon and the Department of War cover avionics and ejector assemblies for SM-3 Block IB and IIA. The interceptor quantity talks come later.
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A $17 million first tranche became an $80 million agreement in under 12 months, awarded under Other Transaction Authority rather than the traditional procurement cycle.
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