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Modern air defense systems have become important instruments, shaping contemporary politics.
With the rapid closing of the “Davidson window,” the more the U.S. can do to stockpile oil for military use, the better.
Justin Sanchez • August 5, 2025
Elevating AI and chips to national priorities is essential, but it’s also time to give biotechnology and biosecurity the same strategic focus. The U.S. should stop treating biosecurity as a low-visibility, high-impact endeavor and recommit to biotechnology as a launchpad for economic prosperity, with biosecurity as the guardrails that keep us accelerating in the right direction into the future.
Nuclear energy, which currently provides about 20% of electricity in the U.S. is uniquely well-positioned to fill the gap.
Defense electronics are the endgame, and scaling up mineral capacity without doing the same for electronics will lead to failure.
The Navy has other options for adding more firepower at sea rather than returning the battleships for yet another period of active duty.
The goal is to fund efforts that make what is invisible visible, so that clinicians can guide treatments and rehabilitation.
We need to link delivery performance to mission impact, because there is no value in shipping software code weekly if it fails to advance mission metrics or creates a poor user experience.
Three critical elements must be considered to ensure the architecture is both viable for the short term and flexible for the long term.
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