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How Congressional Oversight of the Pentagon Actually Works
Hearings, testimony, and reports are the levers Congress uses to hold defense programs accountable. Here is how each one moves money and programs.
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Inside a Shipyard: How Warships Get Built, From Steel Plate to Sea Trials
Warship construction is a years-long industrial sequence, and each stage shapes the delivery date as much as any contract.
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Battery Breakthroughs and Electric Aircraft Dreams: The Energy-Density Math
Why the gap between batteries and jet fuel, not certification paperwork, sets the pace for electric flight.
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What Is Innovation, Really? A Working Definition for Defense Technology
Invention creates something new. Innovation makes it matter. The distinction explains why the Pentagon funds so many prototypes and fields so few.
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The Valley of Death: Why Promising Defense Prototypes Struggle to Become Fielded Gear
A prototype that works in a lab is not a program of record. The gap between the two — and how technology transition defense efforts try to cross it — shapes which ideas reach troops.
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Analysis: Vietnam's Defense Self-Reliance Push Deserves More Skepticism Than It Gets
A diversified procurement model is real. Whether it amounts to genuine defense-industrial self-reliance is a harder question.