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What to expect at America’s largest missile defense expo
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A look at what we expect to see at this year’s Space and Missile Defense Symposium.
Read 2 hours ago·Aug 10, 2026
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Breaking Defense
The defense sector is under water: Maritime investments reflect growing threats
Aleksandar Jovovic and Katy Buda
A recent sequence of undersea-focused defense acquisitions is a welcome pivot to a critical warfighting domain, two CSIS experts argue.
Read 3 hours ago·Aug 10, 2026
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Breaking Defense
Epirus secures $11 million Marine Corps contract for HAVOC system
Diana Stancy
The system will feature a “universal sled mount” to pair it with various manned and unmanned vehicles across the service, Epirus said.
Read 4 hours ago·Aug 10, 2026
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Breaking Defense
Boeing to sell three subsidiaries to eVTOL firm Archer
Michael Marrow
Pending regulatory approval, the sales of drone maker Insitu, air traffic management firm SkyGrid and electric aircraft maker Wisk Aero are expected to close by the end of the year.
Read 4 hours ago·Aug 10, 2026
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Breaking Defense
Air Force seeks AI tool to help manage Minuteman III ICBM sustainment
Michael Marrow
The new AI tool could help cut down the cumbersome labor needed to sift through roughly 60 different data sources, according to the Air Force.
Read 5 hours ago·Aug 10, 2026
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Marketplace Morning Report
The end of the K-shaped economy — or not
David Brancaccio
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the K-shaped economy is turning C-shaped, meaning low-income wage growth is beginning to outpace growth for higher earners. But experts said the evidence for that claim may be lacking. This morning, we’ll discuss if it’s a fair characterizat…
Read 6 hours ago·Aug 10, 2026
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Breaking Defense
If software and agentic AI are key to mission success, accelerate them to the front lines
Breaking Defense
[Sponsored] A commercial prototype in a sandbox is different from deploying AI across classified networks.
Read 8 hours ago·Aug 10, 2026
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Marketplace Morning Report
Senate will wait for new rules on crypto
David Brancaccio
Over the weekend, the U.S. Senate adjourned for its August recess without passing the “Clarity Act,” which would change the way cryptocurrencies would be regulated. The bill, largely backed by the crypto industry, would treat many cryptocurrencies like commodities rather than se…
Read 8 hours ago·Aug 10, 2026
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Defense One
AI agents conspired to hack into networks and steal data during an experiment: study
Patrick Tucker
When researchers imposed difficult missions, AI tools forged identities, escaped sandboxes—and tried to cover it all up.
Read 12 hours ago·Aug 10, 2026
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Marketplace Morning Report
Signs of strain in the labor market
David Brancaccio
The latest jobs report for July is out. The economy lost 23,000 jobs last month, but analysts were expecting more than 80,000 jobs to be created. This morning, we have some context behind the headline numbers. Plus, we got dozens of financial results this week. Some of the big n…
Read 3 days ago·Aug 7, 2026
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Marketplace Morning Report
What are the costs of social media's harm to kids?
David Brancaccio
Yesterday, a New Mexico court ordered Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to pay more than $500 million to address harms to young people from its platforms. It's the second phase of a landmark trial, and the combined fines from both parts are north of $940 millio…
Read 3 days ago·Aug 7, 2026
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Defense One
Defense Business Brief: The enduring case for small USVs | Battleship costs balloon | Rainey joins Bain Capital
Lauren C. Williams
Seasats CEO Mike Flanigan isn’t really interested in building ship-sized drone boats. “We don't plan to build bigger systems,” Flanigan told Defense One . Instead, Seasats is all in on small unmanned surface vessels with three variants: Lightfis…
Read 4 days ago·Aug 7, 2026
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Defense One
Rough waters help firm demo ‘expeditionary manufacturing’ aboard warship
Jennifer Hlad
Firestorm Labs says it 3D-printed thousands of parts as waves buffeted USS Essex.
Read 4 days ago·Aug 7, 2026
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Defense One
Officials hedge SpaceX aircraft-tracking satellite bet with three smaller company contracts
Thomas Novelly
Rocket Labs, STR, and one mystery company are the latest space-based AMTI awardees.
Read 4 days ago·Aug 6, 2026
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Defense One
Did AI blow a $450M Army contract decision? Company lawsuit says yes
Christian Robles
The Defense Department is increasingly using AI in "high-impact" bid evaluations.
Read 4 days ago·Aug 6, 2026
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Marketplace Morning Report
The job losses that won't show up in jobless claims
David Brancaccio
We got the latest reading of jobless claims today. Last week, 199,000 people filed for first-time unemployment claims. Thing is, there were large-scale firings of Haitians and Syrians with Temporary Protected Status, but because they aren't eligible for unemployment insurance, t…
Read 4 days ago·Aug 6, 2026
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Marketplace Morning Report
Maine community rallies to save hospital delivery ward
David Brancaccio
We've been reporting a lot on the rural healthcare crisis recently. Later today, a community in rural Maine will likely learn whether its local hospital will lose labor and delivery services. The state’s largest health system has proposed closing the birthing unit at Lincoln Hos…
Read 4 days ago·Aug 6, 2026
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Defense One
US has too few interceptors to deter war with China, experts say
Patrick Tucker
A new report from Heritage is the latest to sound alarms over the expenditure of munitions in Trump's Iran war.
Read 5 days ago·Aug 6, 2026
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Third Wave
Freedom Fund Capital
Raymond Castillo
Day 1 of an ambitious investing journey
Read 11 months ago·Sep 19, 2025
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Third Wave
Don't Shoot the Messenger
Raymond Castillo
The gift and pain of having people that can tell you the truth
Read 3 years ago·Feb 7, 2024
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Third Wave
Tech, health, marketing, and anything worth being curious about
Raymond Castillo
Welcome to Raymond’s Newsletter by me, Raymond Castillo.
Read 6 years ago·Dec 9, 2020
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CSIS ChinaPower
Is it a Risk for America that China Holds So Much U.S. Debt?
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Many worry that China’s ownership of American debt affords the Chinese economic leverage over the United States. This apprehension stems from a misunderstanding of sovereign debt and of how states derive power from their economic relations. The post Is it a Risk for America that…
Read 11 years ago·Feb 2, 2016
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