First Breakfast

Throw Out Your Typewriters. Start Necessary Movement.

What I learned from leading Arlington National Cemetery's digital transformation.

Feb 12 • Nick Miller

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Why the Ammunition Surge Is Stalled—and How to Fix It

Eliot Pence, Michael Brown, and Jason Nichols are the co-founders of Supply Energetics, a new energetics upstart reshaping the American defense…

Feb 10 • Eliot Pence, Michael Brown, and Jason Nichols

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The Art of Straphanging

Small business contracting schemes that cost America billions—and drive real defense professionals nuts.

Feb 5 • Nathan Mintz

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Freedom's Forge Forsaken

The sad saga of the Office of Defense Mobilization.

Feb 3 • Arthur Herman

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January 2026

Laying the Cultural Foundation of Reindustrialization

America must reimagine the builder identity for a new generation.

Jan 29 • Ethan Copple

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Rebuilding the On-Ramp

Practical contracting changes can accelerate the development of innovative technology.

Jan 22 • Hunter Scott

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Stop Hunting Unicorns

Why the Department of War must design for what we can actually build.

Jan 20 • Greg Little and Aaron Jaffe

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The Last Supper Is Over

SECWAR's speech at Starbase signals a new era at the Pentagon.

Jan 15 • Shyam Sankar

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The American Tech Fellowship for Veterans

New Year, new cohorts—same mission.

Jan 9 • Shyam Sankar

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December 2025

Our Freedom or Their Tyranny

An old Cold Warrior reminds us of the stakes of technology competition.

Dec 17, 2025 • Shyam Sankar

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Stop Paying Contractors to Fail

How outcome-based contracting can fix government's broken incentives

Dec 4, 2025 • Daryl Wieland

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November 2025

Do We Need to Bring Back the Navy Department?

Arthur Herman is Senior Research Fellow at the Civitas Institute, and author of Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II…

Nov 25, 2025 • Arthur Herman

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