0
Politics

Pentagon targets ‘valley of death,’ where next-gen weapons go to die

May 9, 2026
Scroll

Posted 2 hours ago by

The Trump administration’s 1.5 trillion military budget request would rewrite how the Pentagon buys weapons – forcing contractors to fund their own factory expansions and penalizing them for missing production targets – in a bid to fix what officials describe as a decades-long failure to turn American innovation into usable military capability. Submitted to Congress []...Click to read more

Off The Press
Off The Press

Coverage and analysis from United States of America. All insights are generated by our AI narrative analysis engine.

United States of America
Bias: right

Explore More