Kitty Graham

defense dork, data dork

[Kitty Graham @Kittygrittyy]

Source: USAspending award data archive, every DoD contract FY2008 to FY2026. It counts awards whose description uses a drone term or a counter-drone term (C-UAS, counter-unmanned, C-sUAS etc), each one once. Mentions, not dollars. No OTAs, they aren't in the data.

https://t.co/F9dUYmJvIE

[Kitty Graham @Kittygrittyy]

For nine years Pentagon contracts mentioned drones 140 times for every 1 mention of stopping them.

1,951 to 14.

Last year it was 6 to 1.

Everyone has cheap drones now. The contracts say we started on the defence late.

#defensetech #cUAS

[Kitty Graham @Kittygrittyy]

The counter-drone side on its own.

14 contracts in nine years. Then 26 in 2017, 91 last year, and 111 so far this year with data still coming in.

If you were around for it, what changed in 2017?

[Kitty Graham @Kittygrittyy]

@Castelion @USNavy Fuck yeah

[Kitty Graham @Kittygrittyy]

@RepPatHarrigan Agree that low-cost drone and missile defence has to be the foundation. Everything else is secondary if you can’t stop the cheap threats first

[Kitty Graham @Kittygrittyy]

Photos from the Anduril NASCAR a few months ago. Still one of the cooler defense-tech crossover moments
#anduril #defensetech

[Kitty Graham @Kittygrittyy]

@Reuters The local production push and Ukraine deal make sense with the pressure they’re under

[Kitty Graham @Kittygrittyy]

@Defense_Talks Cool that they’re prioritizing a tight feedback loop by setting up right next to Redstone for the cUAS work

[Kitty Graham @Kittygrittyy]

@wlthxyz @shieldaitech Yeah being able to drop it onto what’s already up there is the real shift

[Kitty Graham @Kittygrittyy]

Had a great time this weekend at @CapitalFactory, lots of fun getting to see all the new ideas from some extraordinary companies!

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

American citizenship is a privilege.

It’s simple: if you obtain citizenship illegally, and lie in your immigration proceedings, you forfeit that privilege.

[Comfortably Smug @ComfortablySmug]

Huge W for @anduriltech and America