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Biden may let US defense contractors deploy to Ukraine, but not like in Iraq and Afghanistan: report
The US is considering allowing limited numbers of US private military contractors to serve in Ukrai…
Mia Jankowicz
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Palmer Luckey's start-up Anduril just proved it can challenge legacy defense contractors and win
The defense tech start-up beat legacy names like Boeing and Lockheed, proving just how important AI…
Polly Thompson
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Defense tech startup Blue Halo makes lasers that shoot drones out of the sky. This is how it got the Army to buy them.
Blue Halo CEO Jonathan Moneymaker sat down with BI to discuss how his defense tech is snapping up c…
Polly Thompson
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I made over $225,000 in a year as a 27-year-old government contractor overseas — and got paid to travel in my free time
Symoné Berry had her expenses covered as an overseas government contractor and received "rest and r…
Ana Altchek
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A Republican congressman who wants the government to spend more money on defense just bought stock in two defense contractors
Rep. Kevin Hern — chair of the Republican Study Committee's Budget and Spending Task Force — called…
Madison Hall
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One of the nation's largest defense contractors just donated tens of thousands to lawmakers voting on Ukraine defense legislation
Raytheon Technologies spent more than $51,000 in April donating to the campaigns of members of Cong…
Madison Hall
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An Air Force scientist was accused of tricking a defense contractor into hiring an unqualified sex worker as a military researcher
The scientist allegedly moved government funds around to pay the woman's salary and threatened to k…
Abbie Shull
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One of the largest defense contractors in the nation donated to nearly 150 members of Congress as they debated Ukraine military aid
Lockheed Martin's political action committee spent more than $250,000 in April donating to the camp…
Madison Hall
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At least 15 lawmakers who shape US defense policy have investments in military contractors
The lawmakers serve on the House Armed Services Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Warren Rojas,Camila DeChalus,Kimberly Leonard,Dave Levinthal
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A Republican senator who helps oversee military policy just sold up to $100,000 worth of defense contractor Lockheed Martin stock
Sen. Deb Fischer, who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee, made at least $10,000 from the…
Madison Hall
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Why small businesses are essential to US national security
The decline of small-business suppliers in the defense marketplace puts the US at risk of losing ke…
Farooq A. Mitha
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A Trump-appointed federal judge acquits a defense contractor accused of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6
Matthew Martin, a federal defense contractor with security clearance, was found not guilty by a fed…
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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A tablet computer and a 'shopping list' reveal how Russia might take on the US without starting a real war
Great-power competition among near-peer states - namely the US, China, and Russia - is bringing a r…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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Republican Rep. Diana Harshbarger bought and sold defense contractor stocks in the days after Russia invaded Ukraine
Congress is considering whether to ban lawmakers from trading individual stocks altogether.
Dave Levinthal
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Marine veteran who died fighting in Ukraine was a volunteer, not a private contractor, say his fellow fighters
One of Willy Joseph Cancel's teammates said that the 22-year-old had funded his own flight to Polan…
Matthew Loh
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Republican Sen. Deb Fischer holds up to $100,000 in defense contractor Lockheed Martin stock while helping lead a Senate Armed Services subcommittee
The Senate is preparing to vote on a bill Monday that will send $40 billion in aid to Ukraine as it…
Kimberly Leonard
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America's shadow army is leaving Afghanistan too
The thousands of US contractors sent overseas were a massive experiment in how Uncle Sam could lean…
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, Responsible Statecraft
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Former Navy captain in the US Seventh Fleet admits he was bribed with lavish meals and sex workers by a foreign defense contractor
Donald Hornbeck accepted $68,000 in bribes, including dinners, hotel rooms, and sex workers from a …
Alia Shoaib
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20 members of Congress personally invest in top weapons contractors that'll profit from the just-passed $40 billion Ukraine aid package
War is "big business to our leaders," says Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of 20 lawmakers Insider…
Kimberly Leonard
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The Pentagon spent $14 trillion after 9/11. Up to half of it went to for-profit defense contractors.
The US military budget grew by more than 10% the first year after 9/11, according to a new study fr…