LOL
This is worse than Nero playing his fiddle while Rome burns.
May I suggest:
7: Tackling anti-Eskimo racism in Starbucks on Lunar bases
8. LGBT on Mars: drag queen story hour for Martian children.
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This is worse than Nero playing his fiddle while Rome burns.
May I suggest:
7: Tackling anti-Eskimo racism in Starbucks on Lunar bases
8. LGBT on Mars: drag queen story hour for Martian children.
The 17 protected expenditures:
Not sure what "Executable" means exactly - current or imminent productions?
Notably, NGAD (except CCA), FA-XX, B-21 not protected.
Not cuts per se but moving funding from legacy programs into whatever deranged fantasies Trump and Musk have dreamed up (e.g. 'Iron Dome for America').
Not sure what "Executable" means exactly - current or imminent productions?
Notably, NGAD (except CCA), FA-XX, B-21 not protected.
Not cuts per se but moving funding from legacy programs into whatever deranged fantasies Trump and Musk have dreamed up (e.g. 'Iron Dome for America').
I don't think this is possible. Thats money that Congress has appropriated already
For sure Trump's administration could make a lower funding request for Defence next time, but that's up to Congress to agree or not.
I think all these measures are just PR tbh
The more I think about it, the more I believe you are right. The Senate is proposing a $150 billion plus up through reconciliation. The House is much more Trumpian, but I bet the Senate gets its way. They are much more hawkish compared to most members and are almost all staunch supporters of NATO, Ukraine and in general standard US institutions and foreign policy.
Dry, but interesting insight into US development and production of nanomaterials that allow for medium-wave and short-wave infrared transparent windows for use on hypersonic weapons. The goal of which is develop windows capable sustaining 50 MPa at 1650 C while allowing for 1.4-3 microns to 3-5 microns transmission. The company presenting this is called Engi-Mat.
I think this is what vehicles like Stratolaunch's Talon reusable hypersonic drone will be very useful for. In theory you can test multiple materials from multiple vendors simultaneously under real world hypersonic conditions.
I think this is what vehicles like Stratolaunch's Talon reusable hypersonic drone will be very useful for. In theory you can test multiple materials from multiple vendors simultaneously under real world hypersonic conditions.
Some clarity on the speculation of cutting defense spending by 8% per year over the next four years. According to this article, they are not cutting spending by 8% ($50 Billion), but the Trump administration wants to reprioritize that spending away from legacy projects towards new priorities. The article also outlines how the Defense Department can get around reprioritizing funds by changing the way they refer to them.
Does anyone know why would Trump do this?
Is it just to purge people from the previous Biden administration ?
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Even before this clarification, I'm not sure why folks were taking the notion of defence cuts even remotely seriously. It probably comes out of DOGE-land where they are looking at the budgetary implications of the additional tax cuts that Trump wants to push through, coupled with hostility towards . But any such move would run into the simple reality that there is near-universal support for maintaining and preferably increasing defence expenditures. Conversely, nobody really cares about the budget deficit, which will almost certainly continue to increase under Trump with little to no pushback from Republicans in Congress who only feign an interest in the subject when Democrats are in power and only in relation to non-defence expenditures. There may be some local losers as funds are redirected from one program to another, but the top-line defence budget will undoubtedly continue to increase. There is a greater chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike Earth in 2032 than that there will be genuine reductions in US defence spending these next few years.
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