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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)
QiOSK

Lawmakers target private equity’s growing chokehold on arms industry

PE-backed defense firms are less stable, more costly for taxpayers

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.)
Washington Politics

Lawmakers pump brakes on military AI — sort of

Democratic senators hope their bills keep a human in the loop. Experts have questions about loopholes.

MQ-4C Triton
QiOSK

$240 million drone vanishes into thin air

According to critics, the MQ-4C was rolled out despite known operational issues

Former U.S. Special Envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg
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Ex-Ukraine envoy Gen. Kellogg now with Trump sons at drone startup

Nothing like using one's proximity to government and a foreign war to make money in the private sector — and business is booming

Trump brothers
Military Industrial Complex

Trump wages war, his sons get payoff through savvy investments

Eric and Don Jr. are backing myriad weapons technology companies, including drones, which are very much in demand in Iran conflict

POGO The Bunker
Military Industrial Complex

The Iran war's early lessons

This week in The Bunker: Every war is instructive in its own way, and the U.S. war on Iran is already offering up 'lessons learned' for future conflicts; and more.