DOD
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From 2020 to 2024, just five companies — Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, RTX and Northrop Grumman — received DOD contracts worth a combined $771 billion.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
And the DOD hasn’t limited itself to mining, inking a $1 billion investment in defense contractor L3Harris’s Missile Solutions unit in exchange for convertible equity.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
European Command had recommended that the more than 4,000 soldiers of the armored brigade wouldn’t be backfilled after its regular nine-month rotation, according to DOD officials, but hadn’t urged that the deployment be halted midstream.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
The DOD is moving to in-stock from just-in-time inventory, which makes sense.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
Okay, let’s concede that you can reliably tell Coke from Pepsi, even when the DOD hovers around 4.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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