2025 sure was a year that occurred, huh?
Look, I’m exhausted, and so are you. In this single year, we’ve all lived decades. President Donald Trump was inaugurated in January, Pete Hegseth was confirmed as defense secretary just days later after a contentious nomination process, and then the news just kept coming.
Industry executives fell over themselves to position their companies for Golden Dome and to ingratiate themselves with the new administration. Congress passed a reconciliation bill with $150 billion for defense but failed to approve a defense appropriations bill for fiscal 2025 (or 2026, for that matter).
The Army killed a bunch of its programs and the Navy curtailed the Constellation-class frigate program. The Air Force awarded its sixth-generation…
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