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Defense Tech track record

Every call as published, never edited after the fact. Each is scored held or missed once the outcome is known.

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ALL DEFENSE TECH JUDGMENTS, NEWEST FIRST

  1. The Pentagon is buying cheap strike mass from a wartime supplier. It ordered 1,320 more Ukrainian F10 drones, taking orders to at least 3,320.OPEN
  2. The Navy is buying fighter capacity as an option on private money. It added $150M to Shield AI's X-BAT, matched dollar for dollar, with no new competition.OPEN
  3. Army command and control now has a platform owner, and value sits with the data layer. Anduril's $162.8M base award tops the $93.6M shared by nine app vendors.OPEN
  4. A post-2010 entrant now carries production risk inside the submarine supply chain. Anduril's Navy deal of up to $2.9B pays only on demonstrated output.OPEN
  5. Under the stopgap, defense production cash still lands at the primes. A $14.7B seven-year seeker deal shows interceptors, not new-entrant drones, getting scale first.OPEN
  6. Drone and missile defense money now waits on Congress, not the Pentagon. A stopgap through Dec 11 freezes $54.6B for DAWG and Golden Dome's top line.OPEN
  7. Drone buying is getting its own chain of command. Hegseth created a new command with acquisition authority and moved DIU's chief to run unmanned buys.OPEN
  8. Counter-drone buying now outruns its money. The Pentagon set $4.15B of ceilings across ten vendors but obligated $50M, then ordered approvals cut to weeks.OPEN
  9. Startups have reached production parity in naval drones. The Navy split 30 robotic ships evenly among Saronic, HII and Galliano at about $40M each.OPEN
  10. The Pentagon is moving drone buying from the services to a new four star command. Money lags: the stopgap bars new starts and the $54.6B request waits on Congress.OPEN
  11. Counter drone buying has shifted to mid tier vendors through an Army run marketplace. Ten awards carry a $4.15B ceiling, but under 1% is funded.OPEN
  12. Multiyear missile awards are running ahead of the money. The $20.7B AMRAAM deal cannot reach full rate until Congress passes full year FY27 defense funding.OPEN
  13. Pentagon AI buying now rewards vendors that accept any lawful use. An appeals court let DoD treat a model maker's usage limits as a supply chain risk.OPEN
  14. Open standards are turning cheap missiles into upgradeable platforms. Barracuda's Air Force verification shifts future value to seeker, datalink and software makers.OPEN
  15. The Navy's reopened sea drone marketplace ends one-shot MUSV wins, so vessel share stays contestable and open autonomy software decides who scales.OPEN
  16. Taiwan arms timing now follows summit politics, so Taiwan's rising budget will favor domestic builds and direct vendor ties over US approvals.OPEN
  17. Pentagon AI demand has outrun its compute. About 1.7M personnel have used GenAI.mil, and officials say capacity is short.OPEN
  18. Private capital for drones and autonomy is running ahead of enacted US defense budget authority.OPEN