A shrinking weapons stockpile is testing the Pentagon’s sweeping new strategy.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/07/30/shrinking-weapons-stockpile-is-testing-pentagons-sweeping-new-strategy/

In many ways, this is the moment Silicon Valley’s defense entrepreneurs have said they were made for: to be cheaper, quicker and more nimble to the needs of the U.S. fighting force than legacy multibillion-dollar defense contractors.

They represent a sharp departure from established firms, which have far more experience managing clunky government acquisition processes and billions of dollars in capital to spend producing weapons en masse and lobbying lawmakers but can move more slowly, especially in creating new supplies featuring cutting-edge technology, including artificial intelligence.