🏗️ First new military base in 40 years

DOD announced a competition to host the Pentagon's first new military base built from the ground up in four decades. The winning state gets hundreds of thousands of acres, housing for up to 25,000 troops, independent power generation, modern air defenses, and classical architecture. Selection will be merit-based on land, red tape removal, housing, schools, and community support.

The US submarine industrial base relies on a handful of sole-source suppliers for propulsor castings, hull steels, sonar ceramics, and anechoic coatings, with almost no margin for error. The Navy has poured $2.6B into supplier development since 2018, but a 2025 GAO report found no clear metrics linking that spending to actual production gains.

The Pentagon's recent NDS implementation report to Congress highlights Golden Dome progress, $53B in munitions acceleration, and European burden sharing. What it skips: the war in Iran has set back arsenal replenishment by "months and years," the U.S. quietly cut brigade combat teams in Europe from five to three, and Russia's hybrid attacks on NATO members go unmentioned.

SecDef unveiled six major initiatives at Quantico, headlined by Project Meridian, a 120-day study aimed to identify future battlefield weapons and technology gaps with findings due January 28. A new four-star Autonomous Warfare Command is targeted to launch for October 2027.

The DIA isn’t waiting for servers to start blinking red. DIA issued a fast-tracked maintenance award to prevent equipment failures and avoid a lapse in key data center warranties, ensuring continuity for critical intelligence operations. Sometimes the most important IT success story is the outage that never happens.

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POTUS announced $200B in South Korean energy investments at the W.H., headlined by a $54B Alaska LNG project featuring a 1,300-kilometer pipeline from the North Slope to an export terminal. South Korea also committed to a 6-gigawatt gas-fired power plant in Encinal, Texas, and investments in U.S. nuclear power plants.

A group of public- and private-sector technologists is creating a “trustworthy” fork of GSA’s U.S. Web Design System after leadership changes brought deleted GitHub comments, reduced contributor access, and new AI tools for automated accessibility testing.

TEFCA now connects more than 100,000 organizations and has processed over 1.7 billion health data transactions, but federal officials say connectivity alone is no longer the measure of success. CMS has expanded its Health Technology Ecosystem from 60 companies to more than 900, and its Medicare App Library now has over 30 certified applications.

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TTM Technologies has acquired Epiq Design Solutions in a $1.1B all-cash transaction. The deal will expand TTM’s aerospace and defense portfolio. Epiq’s portfolio features software-defined radios, radio frequency equipment and radiation-tolerant space computing technology designed for signals intelligence and electronic warfare.

BAE Systems is among the potential bidders that are in the early stages of exploring an offer for Robin Radar Systems. CVC and Blackstone are also exploring making an offer for the Dutch drone detection ‌company. An offer by the private equity firms over the summer was rejected ahead of the sale process.

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A) Paper used to print U.S. currency — Crane began supplying currency paper to the U.S. Treasury in 1879, and the relationship continues today. GAO found that virtually all currency paper purchased by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing since then had come from Crane—making it a remarkable example of a federal supplier relationship spanning nearly a century and a half. (Source)