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Re:Trump signs executive order seeking to ban states from re... by mikeyouse on Friday December 12, 2025 @10:32PM (#46251744)
Re:Trump signs executive order seeking to ban states from re... by A_D_E_P_T on Saturday December 13, 2025 @05:13AM (#46253491)
tbh there's nothing weird about those.

The Marine Corps I-CsUAS award is explicitly described as an IDIQ with a maximum dollar value of $642M over 10 years -- though it could be much less -- and reporting indicates it was competitively procured with 10 offerors. It wasn't "gifted"/"no-bid"

Also: $642M spread over 10 years is roughly $64M/year at the ceiling, and ceilings are often not fully used. That scale is not remotely unusual for a program-of-record counter-UAS capability if the government believes the threat is persistent. (Which it does.)

The rest are similarly mundane and justifiable.

Here's what would be weird: Repeated sole-source awards where a competitive approach is feasible, implausible technical scope relative to deliverables, unjustified pricing, or political intervention affecting downselects. I don't see any of that here. (But, okay, let's not talk about Palantir, lol.)