Archive - 🛡️🌏 Not Those Shades of Gray 🌏🛡️

Canceled Program Power Rankings

What Major Defense Acquisition Programs Will Meet The White House Woodchipper?

May 8 •

April 2025

Startups & Sea Power

Why is it So Hard For Startups to Work With the Navy?

Apr 17 •

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March 2025

The Long Goodbye: Phasing Humans Out of Vehicles, from Space to Submarines

What the history of unmanned vehicles suggests about today's moment for navies and driverless car companies

Mar 21 •

Four Existential Risks in Naval Defense Tech

Fortunately, One of Them Is China’s

Mar 7 •

February 2025

Defense M&A and the Deal Flow Dinner

New primes are being built, competition is returning

Feb 13 •

January 2025

The sUSV Market: Small, Saturated... but Strategic

Small USVs can monitor and control maritime chokepoints at low cost and risk, but the market upside for the private sector to develop this capability is…

Jan 24 •

December 2024

All I Wanted For Christmas: Attritable Naval Platforms + A Force Architecture Continuum

Framing platforms as attritable is wrong. Instead, design forces to have sensor-shooter coverage across an expendable-survivable spectrum.

Dec 27, 2024 •

Lessons from an Intelligence Officer on Ukraine’s Frontline

Originally published in Proceedings - I realized everything I wrote in 2023 about "attritable" and "survivable" platforms was wrong. Stay tuned for an…

Dec 21, 2024 •

November 2024

Red’s Hellscape: Far More Dangerous Than Blue’s

Chinese industry will excel at mass-producing UxVs for first-island-chain defense, denial, and control

Nov 29, 2024 •

October 2024

OTAs, Defense Tech, & The Path To Revenue

Pulling all DoD Other Transaction Agreements reveals cultural differences between services, data disparities, and signs of hope.

Oct 11, 2024 •

August 2024

The $50 Billion Question:

Unveiling the Scale of the Uncrewed Systems Market? What a new platform-payload framework, Ukrainian front-line units, and a quantitative approach…

Aug 2, 2024 •

Why Start a Substack?

Decades are happening in weeks... let's untangle it together

Aug 1, 2024 •

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