The World Desk · slice 06

Defense Desk

Procurement, contractors, and the industrial base — where the world's military spending actually lands. This desk reads the defense slice of the lattice and the federal contract record: who is winning awards, and what capability is being bought.

$2.7T — global military spending, 2024 — as reported by SIPRI.

As of 2026-07-03 · live snapshot.

Contracts & awards

From the federal public record (SAM.gov · USAspending) — the money actually moving, not the press release about it.

In the coverage

The desk’s read of what its sources reported most recently.

Questions the desk is watching

Defense procurement: which programs are actually getting funded right now — and what happens next?Lockheed Martin: what happens next, and what would change the read?
THE DEFENSE DESK BRIEF

What this desk sees, in your inbox — the record, the moves, and the read, written for managers whose portfolio is the world.

Informational only — event intelligence, not investment advice. Market-size figures are editorial estimates with sources as noted; contract and award lines are drawn from public federal records via our tracked pipelines.