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Boeing marked up soap dispensers by 8,000% amid $1 million in overcharges for Air Force, audit says
Boeing overcharged the Air Force nearly $1 million for spare parts on C-17 cargo planes, including an 8,000% markup for simple…
Y Combinator, the startup incubator, has long been synonymous with Silicon Valley software companies that have digitized society: Airbnb for…
The U.S. will very likely fight a 3-front war against Russia, China and Iran, Palantir’s Alex Karp says
The U.S. military has long prioritized being able to fight two wars simultaneously in different parts of the globe, similar…
Biden reverses policy on weapons sales to Saudi Arabia as Mideast war upends U.S. priorities
President Joe Biden agreed to lift limits on the sale of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia, reversing a policy imposed…
Boeing’s guilty plea to criminal charge means it now needs a Pentagon waiver to keep its lucrative defense contracts
Boeing Co. is discussing a potential path forward with the US Defense Department to preserve its government contract business after…
Andreessen Horowitz is leading a $15 million seed funding round into a secret defense startup led by a serial entrepreneur…
While Russian agents were breaking into the Democratic National Committee’s emails in mid-2016 in an attempt to influence the presidential…
The Defense Department abruptly decided to stop funding Shift, a $2 million fellowship program that strengthened the Pentagon’s relationship with…
Pentagon says there’s no evidence of aliens after decades of UFO sightings—and rejects claims the U.S. is reverse-engineering extraterrestrial tech
A Pentagon office set up to investigate purported alien encounters dating back decades found no evidence to support claims that any of…
America hits Iran and its affiliates with dozens of strikes on sites in Iraq, Syria after 3 U.S. troops die in Jordan
The U.S. military launched an air assault on dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian…