Julia Gledhill

2 months ago | realcleardefense.com | Nick Cleveland-Stout |Julia Gledhill

Software Is Eating the DoD: Brought to You by the Atlantic Council Full court press by Silicon Valley and friends for the military to — surprise — eradicate funding restrictions for new tech Read Full Article »

Mar 25, 2025 | responsiblestatecraft.org | Julia Gledhill

Last week, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth directed the termination of over $580 million in Pentagon contracts, grants, and programs. They amount to less than 0.001% of the Pentagon budget. The elimination of this spending aligns with the administration’s effort to reshuffle the budget, not to promote a wholesale reduction in military spending.

Mar 13, 2025 | breakingdefense.com | Julia Gledhill |Alyssa Schonhaut

Christopher Kubasik — CEO of L3Harris Technologies, Inc. and Chairman of the Aerospace Industries Association — recently published an open letter to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), recommending the elimination of Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) in the name of efficiency. It’s a clever attempt to position a traditional defense contractor as an ally of new thinking, but it comes with a big caveat: Eradicating these standards would only promote more Pentagon waste.

Dec 3, 2024 | realcleardefense.com | Julia Gledhill

Evaluating arguments for the United States to spend more on national security – and the potential consequences of doing so.

Dec 2, 2024 | stimson.org | Julia Gledhill |Joaquin Matamis

National security spending has grown nearly 50% since 2000, and the Pentagon budget alone will soon reach the trillion-dollar threshold. Still, lawmakers, Pentagon officials, and defense industry spokespeople alike routinely sound the alarm about what they perceive as insufficient national security spending.