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• As I wrote about earlier this month, the Trump administration has requested a record $1.5 trillion in Department of Defense (DoD) funding for FY 2027. In my post about what...
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As I wrote about earlier this month, the Trump administration has requested a record $1.5 trillion in Department of Defense (DoD) funding for FY 2027. In my post about what that signals for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry’s role in the defense sector, I discussed how defense industry experts have cautioned that a contentious fight over spending levels could most negatively impact precisely the sorts of companies — smaller, younger enterprises from outside the traditional defense fold — that the Pentagon needs to succeed in order to effect its long-term transition towards a more agile procurement process.
Now, the newer spending programs that the emerging class of Western defense firms are most relevant to represent a much smaller portion of the defense budget than do behemoths li