Archive - The Last Call

Command to Collaboration: Rethinking How the DoD Builds

America doesn’t suffer from a lack of defense innovation, it suffers from a lack of alignment.

Jul 7 •

June 2025

Same Playbook, New Logos: Breaking the GOVCON Monoculture

In a marketplace full of mimicry, true innovation means breaking the GOVCON mold by learning from those inside it.

Jun 12 •

Steel Won the Last War, Software Will Decide the Next

It’s time to trade smokestacks for software and replace industrial nostalgia with strategic innovation.

Jun 9 •

The Defense Innovation Clone Wars

They promised to kill the primes. They ended up becoming them.

Jun 4 •

Why Speed Still Needs a Scorekeeper

Rethinking Oversight in the Hegseth Era

Jun 2 •

May 2025

Automating the Absurd: How AI Agents Will Scale Bureaucracy, Not Reform It

Without structural reform, the Department of Defense risks embedding inefficiency at scale with fewer humans left to challenge the system.

May 28 •

We Don’t Need Another ERP

The Hidden Cost of Choosing Legacy GOTS Over Modular AI Solutions

May 24 •

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