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Drew FitzGerald

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Wall Street Journal reporter covering all things aerospace and defense. Before that, telecom. Have a tip? Ping me on Signal at drewfitzgerald.87 Stories: www.wsj.com/news/author/drew-fitzge…

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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Boeing’s “nerds” have agreed to a new contract: www.wsj.com/business/air...
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Boeing Engineers Bless New Contract After Summer Showdown
Stung by a mechanics strike in 2024, the plane maker is trying to avoid a new work stoppage with its engineers and technicians.
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A somber and respectful Arlington National Death Arch
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
News from General Missiles: www.wsj.com/business/aut...
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GM to Produce Patriot Missile Parts as U.S. Faces Critical Arms Shortage
The Detroit automaker’s partnership with Lockheed Martin is a potential lift to America’s munitions supplies depleted by the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 15/09/2026
The Pentagon spent some $38 billion in its first few months of the war with Iran on.wsj.com/4yJDpvz
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The Pentagon spent some $38 billion in its first few months of the war with Iran
A nonpartisan congressional watchdog estimates the war with Iran is likely to cost an additional $2 billion to $3 billion a month.
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Pentagon is considering lending $5 billion to a company advised by Erebor, a bank founded by Palmer Luckey
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
That’s a whole lotta rigs www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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Exclusive | Trump’s Venezuelan Oil Company Plans Massive Drilling Push
The company led by Alejandro Betancourt plans to dispatch more than 50 drilling rigs to turbocharge the country’s anemic crude production.
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“They are seizing it—there’s no other word for it” The Trump admin held months of secret talks to get a piece of Venezuela’s oil reserves, using the Pentagon in an unusual way to structure the transaction: w/ @verambergen.bsky.social et al: www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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Exclusive | Inside Trump’s Plan to Give the Pentagon a Stake in Venezuela’s Oil Riches
The deal capped months of secretive negotiations to give the U.S. rights to the some of the world’s largest proven oil reserves.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 27/08/2026
Federal investigators said the temporary relocation of Marine One’s landing zone due to White House construction was a factor in a safety incident earlier this month involving the military helicopter carrying President Trump.
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Investigators Say White House Construction Was a Factor in Marine One Incident
A preliminary report says a change in the Marine One take-off location blocked radio communications.
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Never mind the stock slump — SpaceX is still racking up massive contracts and valuable regulatory breaks in Washington @micahmaidenberg.bsky.social and I count the ways Elon Musk's rocket company is setting itself up to profit for years to come: www.wsj.com/business/tel...
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SpaceX Is Racking Up Wins in Washington
The Elon Musk-led rocket and AI company is landing lucrative contracts and benefiting from the Trump administration’s deregulatory push.
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Today’s front-page story on the climate that led to a defense CEO’s ouster: www.wsj.com/business/wom...
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Exclusive | Women at L3Harris Shared Concerns About CEO’s Behavior Years Before Ouster
Chris Kubasik was ousted after an investigation into conduct with a subordinate. Years earlier, another employee had made a harassment complaint.
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Solid ProPublica postmortem on GD’s artillery shell plant failures, including acrid smoke, deformed parts and a literal dumpster fire www.propublica.org/article/gene...
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Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“Stunning” is maybe the worst thing to see pulled out of an editor’s drawer of lazy adjectives. If you see it in my copy, I lost the battle.
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
We know
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A $1.6 billion launch deal is small potatoes next to the $6 billion of satellites those rockets will be carrying (also from SpaceX) www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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How SpaceX Became Embedded in America’s War Machine
Pledges to quickly deploy technology and ties cultivated with the Pentagon have helped land new contracts totaling billions of dollars.
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The Pentagon’s order for Patriot missiles alone—just the interceptors—is now up to $59 billion over seven years www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Pentagon Widens Patriot Missile Order to Nearly $59 Billion
The Army modified its contract with Lockheed Martin to step-up production; the final cost will depend on congressional funding.
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The Pentagon’s order for Patriot missiles alone—just the interceptors—is now up to $59 billion over seven years www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Pentagon Widens Patriot Missile Order to Nearly $59 Billion
The Army modified its contract with Lockheed Martin to step-up production; the final cost will depend on congressional funding.
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Boeing says it’ll cost $280 million more to build two new Air Force One models and deliver the first in 2028 www.wsj.com/business/air...
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Boeing Pours Into Factories to Speed Air Force One, Commercial Jet Production
The CEO said “significant resources” are being invested to ensure the new presidential plane stays on schedule for delivery in 2028.
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Found the Combine (and some nice pubs)
London’s Shard tower framed by some trees
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Update on the Pentagon’s ever-expanding Wall Street welcome mat: www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Pentagon Dangles $400,000 Salaries to Recruit Wall Street Bankers
A plan to lend more than $200 billion to shore up defense manufacturing has fueled a hiring spree for Wall Street underwriters.
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Wow. Somebody actually said it. #IranWar #HuntForRedOctober
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Hugo Lowell @hugolowell.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
NEW @wired.com: With Trump restarting the Iran war, US intel officials estimate the total cost for the Pentagon could now exceed $100bn Officials were estimating the total cost to hit $50-$100bn at the end of May, but more hostilities means that figure has ballooned www.wired.com/story/pentag...
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Intel Officials Predict the Pentagon’s Bill for the Iran War Will Exceed $100 Billion
The Trump administration has not disclosed its cost estimates for the Iran war.
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This is giving me flashbacks to the T-Mobile merger trial. Plenty of weird twists, including Texas joining a bunch of Dem AGs suing before switching sides.
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I was just talking about this irritating marker of AI-generated pablum and couldn’t remember what to call it
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 10/07/2026
The FAA issued an AD to upgrade the 737 NG engine nacelle in the wake of the Southwest incident in 2018. The work has a compliance deadline of July 2028. Whether or not this 737 already had the modifications or not may have massive ramifications for Boeing.
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Edward Russell @byerussell.com · 10/07/2026
The FAA is expected to certify Boeing's 737 MAX 7 later in July. Launch customer Southwest has firm orders for 256 -7s.
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Exclusive | Boeing’s Smallest MAX Jet Nears FAA Milestone After Years of Delays
Federal regulators are expected to certify Boeing’s second-to-last version of its 737 later this month, marking a significant—albeit belated—milestone for the plane maker.
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Airport Architecture @airportarchitecture.byerussell.com · 04/07/2026
Washington Reagan National, Terminal 2, 1990s (opened 1997), by Cesar Pelli. 📷 National Airport Terminal, Cesar Pelli, by Oscar Riera Ojeda, 2000. #airportarchitecture www.instagram.com/p/DaXx-aJxhJ0/
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
you just created a million cape verdes
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Que partido
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Incredible
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Elon Musk’s company has shown investors a phone-like prototype with AI software preloaded www.wsj.com/tech/ai/spac...
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Exclusive | SpaceX Showed Investors Prototype of Elon Musk’s New AI Device
The sleek, handset-like prototype was designed to integrate AI technology from SpaceX’s xAI.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 29/06/2026
The passenger aircraft landed safely and reported no damage, the FAA said. on.wsj.com/3R73UuA
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A pilot landing a passenger plane at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport reported hitting a drone
The passenger aircraft landed safely and reported no damage, the FAA said.
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Rocket Lab saying go big or go home (via @micahmaidenberg.bsky.social) www.wsj.com/business/tel...
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Rocket Lab Buys Satellite Operator Iridium in Bid to Challenge SpaceX
The deal would give Rocket Lab control over a satellite fleet and access to wireless resources it could use to compete with SpaceX.
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
😬
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Another banger from @bobmcmillan.bsky.social: www.wsj.com/tech/cyberse...
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Exclusive | How Hackers Found a Back Door Into the American Living Room
Nation-state cyberattackers are increasingly using residential proxy networks to mask their traffic, turning everyday electronics into a massive global threat.
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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 14/06/2026
This is that scene where the guy waves the sword around and then Indiana Jones pulls out a gun
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
SpaceX honchos share something in common aside from their soaring net worth: having built race cars in college. A peek at the Formula SAE mafia from @micahmaidenberg.bsky.social: www.wsj.com/tech/spacex-...
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SpaceX’s Engineering Secret? A College Car-Racing Club
Leaders at the space and AI company share ties to a Cornell University team where they honed their engineering skills.
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
SpaceX doesn’t say much about its contracts with military and intelligence agencies. But they’re worth billions and growing fast. The backstory w/ @micahmaidenberg.bsky.social: www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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How SpaceX Became Embedded in America’s War Machine
Pledges to quickly deploy technology and ties cultivated with the Pentagon have helped land new contracts totaling billions of dollars.
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
SpaceX notches another mega Space Force contract: $4.2 billion for space-based AMTI (missile tracking) www.ssc.spaceforce.mil/Newsroom/Art...
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Everything’s coming up SpaceX today — Space Force awards it a $2.3 billion Space Data Network contract while lawmakers make clear the Space Development Agency’s days are numbered
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
SpaceX says about a fifth of its $18.7 billion revenue haul last year was attributable to the U.S. government. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
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Government Contracts Bolster SpaceX, Pose Risks
Spending by U.S. federal agencies accounted for about 20% of SpaceX’s revenue last year. That proportion highlights both the close ties the company has developed with the government as well as how it ...
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
My AI girlfriend dumped me is simply something you could not waterboard out of me
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The thing about the Judgment Fund is that if this maneuver works for J6ers, it can work for anybody. Plenty of people (and businesses) have claims against the U.S.
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
there is a difference between kinetic action (shooting/blowing stuff up) and non-kinetic (cyberwar, jamming, etc) but there is zero reason to talk like that to people outside the jargonosphere
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
New CBO report projects Trump’s Golden Dome (né Iron Dome for America) antimissile shield would cost more than $1 trillion, an estimate largely based on last year’s executive order: www.cbo.gov/system/files...
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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Apparently Canvas was breached by Shinyhunters. So, potentially 1,000s of schools and their data have been breached.
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The Army is summoning weapons makers to a hackathon in the coming weeks. Contractors are being asked to open up their interfaces and make their data more portable. Anduril’s Lattice software will validate the work. www.wsj.com/tech/army-as...
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Army Asks Missile Makers to Hack Their Own Weapons
The U.S. Army is pushing defense contractors to open up weapons’ software to new tools, including AI.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I do wish it was better understood by now—especially by folks in the media—that these "warnings" from large AI corporations in fact function as "advertisements" www.axios.com/2025/04/22/a...
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Exclusive: Anthropic warns fully AI employees are a year away
Managing those AI identities will require companies to completely reassess their cybersecurity strategies.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/04/2026
Keating to Hegseth on the administration's rationale for its deadly boat strikes: "We were given classified information on the second strike. I can't discuss it. But it's the most convoluted bullshit I've ever heard in my life."
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Cocaine making a comeback, etc
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
‘effective immediately’ always keeps things calm
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