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  • 1 month 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 »

  • 2 months ago | 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.

  • 2 months ago | 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.

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Julia Gledhill
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30 May 25

RT @barbaraslavin1: https://t.co/8OQ7KUUDti glad to see @StimsonCenter giving a new home to distinguished colleagues from the #WilsonCenter.

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29 May 25

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28 May 25

Great work from @Public_Citizen and @IPS_DC

Public Citizen
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Trump's budget would bring the Pentagon war machine's funding to over $1 TRILLION for 2026. That is more than enough to fund Medicaid for 13.7 million people at risk of losing health care. They are not "cutting costs," they're robbing Americans of programs that help them.