Weekly News Update: Feb 16, 2024

10 - 16 Feb 2024

Good morning,

What a week. The Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers in the last few minutes of over time to win the Super Bowl. Replicator is moving forward with the first tranche of awardees being identified. The second tranche will focus on software, purportedly. The Air Force Association hosted its warfare symposium in Colorado, providing an important venue for discussions around the restructuring of the Air Force, adoption of critical technology, requirements to change budgeting processes, and much more. Y Combinator wants to get in on the Defense Tech bubble—how far we’ve come from the days of Silicon Valley looking at the Pentagon like a leper colony. Space remains hot as the SpaceX launches another private lunar lander and Russia looks to put nuclear weapons in space.

Let’s dive in to these and other issues surrounding aerospace and defense technology.