Pentagon’s spending plan doubles down on land, air, sea robots

The Pentagon will nearly double its innovation arm, expand the industrial base for cheap maritime and aerial drones, and develop new ways to ensure supplies of critical minerals, according to an unclassified spending strategy for the $151 billion in funding from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.That money is $8.3 billion more than the $144 billion the Defense Department requested. But unlike normal discretionary funds, the spending is mandatory. The allocation plan obtained by Defense One shows a